River
Biryusa
830 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Taseyeva River
In numbers
Length
830km
Average flow
350m³/s
Basin
55,800km²
Drop
500m
from 604 m to 104 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
830 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBol'shaya Biryusaat 604 m
- 10 kmBol'shaya Biryusatributary
- 10 kmMalaya Biryusatributary
- 182 kmTagultributary
- 227 kmTumanshettributary
- 261 kmBiryusinsk9,583 people
- 327 kmToporoktributary
- 419 kmOzero Staritsa (lanaw nga porma ug arko sa Rusya, Irkutskaya Oblast')1.3 km²
- 453 kmPoymatributary
- 830 kmTaseyeva Riverat 104 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Left headwater of Taseyeva in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
At the mouth it carries 350 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 7.1 seconds. It drops from 604 m to 104 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 55,800 km², about the size of HR. 150,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to July; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BiryusinskLargest city on its banks · 9,583 people
- On the water8 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Biryusa, month by month
Highest water: from May to July
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 47 m³/s in the lowest month to 940 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Biryusa: the basin in numbers
54,578 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 150,000people live in the basin
- 3/km²people per km²
- 564maverage altitude of the basin
- 436mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -2.6°Caverage air temperature
- 16%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 91% Forest
- 1% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Biryusa: what you find on the way
- 8Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Biryusa in our other atlases
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Staritsa (lanaw nga porma ug arko sa Rusya, Irkutskaya Oblast')km 4081.3km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Biryusa in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (6)
Also: Tagul, Poyma, Tumanshet, Malaya Biryusa, Toporok, Bol'shaya Biryusa
In the same basin
Russia3,487 km19,800 m³/sAngaraRussia1,779 km4,500 m³/sNizhnyaya TunguskaRussia2,989 km3,700 m³/sSelengaRussia1,024 km940 m³/sPodkamennaya TunguskaRussia1,865 km1,600 m³/sOrkhon River
Mongolia1,124 km120 m³/sAbakanRussia514 km380 m³/sOkaRussia630 km270 m³/sUdaRussia1,203 km300 m³/sIrkutRussia488 km140 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q386101) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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