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River

Chirchiq

154 km from source to mouth · Uzbekistan.

UzbekistanUzbekistanFlows into Syr Darya9th longest in Uzbekistan

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SourceMouthChirchiqSergeli
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

154km

Average flow

220m³/s

Basin

14,240km²

Drop

499m

from 753 m to 254 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

154 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

753 m254 m
Sourceat 753 m0 km
Galvasay Rivertributary18 km
Chirchiq162,800 people43 km
Bektemir31,400 people82 km
Sergeli105,700 people90 km
Zafar24,781 people132 km
Syr Daryaat 254 m154 km
050100154 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 753 m
  2. 0 kmChatkal Rivertributary
  3. 1 kmCharvak Lake26 km²
  4. 7 kmUgamtributary
  5. 7 kmKizilsutributary
  6. 18 kmGalvasay Rivertributary
  7. 21 kmG‘azalkent21,600 people
  8. 24 kmAksakatasay Rivertributary
  9. 28 kmIskandar27,636 people
  10. 43 kmChirchiq162,800 people
  11. 82 kmBektemir31,400 people
  12. 90 kmSergeli105,700 people
  13. 132 kmZafar24,781 people
  14. 145 kmChinoz23,700 people
  15. 154 kmSyr Daryaat 254 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Uzbekistan

At the mouth it carries 221 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11 seconds. It drops from 753 m to 254 m, 3.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 14,240 km², about the size of ME. 2.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to April; lowest: from July to October. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (26% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • ChirchiqLargest city on its banks · 162,800 people
  • Tashkent-Khumo International Airport (TVT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 23 km from the cityCar hire in TashkentDiscover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to June and from August to OctoberThe best months to visit

Chirchiq, month by month

Highest water: from January to April

Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to June and from August to October.

800
0°52 mmJan
830
2°49 mmFeb
900
8°71 mmMar
820
15°63 mmApr
620
20°41 mmMay
300
25°12 mmJun
100
27°6 mmJul
32
25°2 mmAug
29
20°5 mmSep
130
14°32 mmOct
350
7°45 mmNov
640
3°54 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 29 m³/s in the lowest month to 900 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

Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car

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The basin

Chirchiq: the basin in numbers

13,296 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 26% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 2.6millionpeople live in the basin
  • 193/km²people per km²
  • 2,256maverage altitude of the basin
  • 694mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 3.2°Caverage air temperature
  • 53%protected areas
  • 0.2%covered by lakes
  • 14%permafrost
  • 2.0km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 1% Forest
  • 13% Cropland
  • 74% Pasture
  • 5% Towns and cities

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

Chirchiq: what you find on the way

  • 21DamsCharvak Dam, Hojikent damb, Gazalkent dam and 18 more
  • 15Weirs
  • 4Waterfalls
  • 1Ferry piers
  • 2MarinasCatamaran rental

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Chirchiq 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.

  • 1lake on its wayLakeyas
  • 3mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Charvak Lakekm 126km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (3)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Mingbulak mountain15 km away
  2. Gora Kungurbuka5.3 km away
  3. Myn-Tukum Gora7.7 km away

Open Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Chirchiq: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Chirchiq: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth16 km across

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

Chirchiq in pictures

Chirchiq river near Chorvoq
Carpodacus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chirchik River in Khodzhikent
Ymblanter · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chirchiq kanali 01
Sevindikovna Feruza · CC0
Chirchiq river. Tashkent 01
Jamshid Nurkulov · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

Syr DaryaKazakhstanKazakhstan2,212 km700 m³/s

Tributaries (7)

Chatkal RiverUzbekistanUzbekistan217 km130 m³/sjoins at km 0

Also: Pskem River, Ugam, Aksakatasay River, Galvasay River, Kizilsu, Karankul Say

In the same basin

Naryn RiverUzbekistanUzbekistan807 km430 m³/sKara DaryaUzbekistanUzbekistan180 km140 m³/sArys RiverKazakhstanKazakhstan378 km47 m³/sAngren RiverUzbekistanUzbekistan236 km23 m³/sAt-Bashi RiverKyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan180 km33 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Angren RiverUzbekistanUzbekistan236 km23 m³/s16 km awayChatkal RiverUzbekistanUzbekistan217 km130 m³/s139 km awayArys RiverKazakhstanKazakhstan378 km47 m³/s214 km awayNaryn RiverUzbekistanUzbekistan807 km430 m³/s257 km awayKara DaryaUzbekistanUzbekistan180 km140 m³/s257 km awayTalas RiverKazakhstanKazakhstan661 km170 m³/s348 km awayQashqadaryo RiverUzbekistanUzbekistan378 km25 m³/s367 km awayPanj RiverTajikistanTajikistan921 km1,000 m³/s423 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q1961081) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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