River
Chuluut River
415 km from source to mouth · Mongolia.
MongoliaFlows into Ider River9th longest in Mongolia
In numbers
Length
415km
Average flow
25m³/s
Basin
20,000km²
Drop
1,300m
from 2,496 m to 1,196 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
415 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,496 m
- 157 kmTerkhiin Tsagaan Lake61 km²
- 229 kmSuman Rivertributary
- 415 kmIder Riverat 1,196 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Mongolia
At the mouth it carries 25 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 100 seconds. It drops from 2,496 m to 1,196 m, 3.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,000 km², about the size of SI. 20,000 people live in it. Highest water: from July to August; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- JargalantA town on its banks
- Mörön Airport (MXV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 42 km from the city
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Chuluut River, month by month
Highest water: from July to August
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 4.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 130 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
Chuluut River: the basin in numbers
20,003 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 20,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 2,276maverage altitude of the basin
- 251mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -4.2°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 60%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 4% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 91% 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.
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Chuluut River in our other atlases
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Terkhiin Tsagaan Lakekm 15461km²
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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
Chuluut River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Ider RiverMongolia452 km57 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Suman River
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 RiverMongolia1,124 km120 m³/sAbakanRussia514 km380 m³/sOkaRussia630 km270 m³/sUdaRussia1,203 km300 m³/sIrkutRussia488 km140 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q402844) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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