River
Bukhtarma River
336 km from source to mouth · Kazakhstan.
KazakhstanFlows into Irtysh
In numbers
Length
336km
Average flow
210m³/s
Basin
12,660km²
Drop
1,668m
from 2,056 m to 388 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
336 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmAltai Mountainsat 2,056 m
- 71 kmWhite Bereltributary
- 180 kmBelayatributary
- 295 kmKhamirtributary
- 319 kmTurgusuntributary
- 336 kmIrtyshat 388 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kazakhstan
At the mouth it carries 214 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 12 seconds. It drops from 2,056 m to 388 m, 5.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 12,660 km², about the size of BS. 63,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PervorossiyskoyeLargest city on its banks · 2,583 people
- Oskemen International Airport (UKK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 103 km from the cityCar hire at ALA airport (Almaty)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Bukhtarma River, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 720 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.
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The basin
Bukhtarma River: the basin in numbers
14,261 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 63,000people live in the basin
- 4/km²people per km²
- 1,420maverage altitude of the basin
- 472mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -0.5°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 28%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 14% Cropland
- 46% 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
Bukhtarma River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Bukhtarma River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Muzdy-Bulak12 km away
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
Bukhtarma River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Irtysh
Russia4,248 km3,000 m³/sTributaries (8)
Also: White Berel, Turgusun, Khamir, Belaya, Sarymsakty, Cheremoshka, Chernovaya, Chindagatuy
ChinaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q999149) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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