River
Cinca River
170 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Segre
In numbers
Length
170km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
9,000km²
Drop
836m
from 911 m to 75 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
170 km of river and 16 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmibón de Marboréat 911 m
- 5 kmCascada del Sorrosal120 m
- 41 kmYaga rivertributary
- 41 kmVellos Rivertributary
- 45 kmAra Rivertributary
- 57 kmMediano Reservoir12 km²
- 76 kmEl Grado Reservoir10 km²
- 76 kmEl Grado383 people
- 105 kmMonzón17,042 people
- 141 kmAlcanadretributary
- 147 kmZaidín1,807 people
- 148 kmVelilla de Cinca505 people
- 156 kmClamor Amargatributary
- 158 kmPuente de Fraga
- 158 kmFraga15,576 people
- 164 kmTorrente de Cinca1,037 people
- 165 kmMassalcoreig592 people
- 170 kmSegreat 75 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Spain, from the Central Pyrenees
At the mouth it carries 100 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 25 seconds. It drops from 911 m to 75 m, 4.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 9,000 km², about the size of PR. 208,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to June and from November to December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (29% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- MonzónLargest city on its banks · 17,042 people
- Lleida-Alguaire Airport (ILD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 35 km from the cityCar hire at REU airport (Reus)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe16 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to OctoberThe best months to visit
Cinca River, month by month
Highest water: from May to June and from November to December
Best months to visit: from June to October.
From about 50 m³/s in the lowest month to 150 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
Cinca River: the basin in numbers
9,720 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 208,000people live in the basin
- 21/km²people per km²
- 789maverage altitude of the basin
- 680mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.5°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 34% Forest
- 37% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 1% 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
Cinca River: what you find on the way
- 23WeirsEstacion de aforo, Estacion de aforo Ara-Boltaña, Salto de Arias II and 20 more
- 10WaterfallsSalto del Carpin, Cascada de Turieto, Cascada de Tamborrotera and 7 more
- 9RapidsLa Pasarela, La Jeringuilla, La Chicane and 6 more
- 7Canoe put-insEmbarquembarque aguas bravas Ara, Rampas de Bujaruelo, Embarque aguas bravas Ara, Puente de los navarros - Broto, Embarque aguas bravas Ara, Broto - Fiscal and 4 more
- 3Boat rampsSegundo embarcadero
- 1MarinasEmbarcadero de Belver
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Cinca 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
59mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cascada del Sorrosalkm 6120m
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Mediano Reservoirkm 5912km²
- El Grado Reservoirkm 7910km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Mountains at the source (59)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte Perdido2.3 km away · prominence 973 m3,355m
- Cilindro de Marboré1.8 km away · prominence 251 m3,328m
- Soum de Ramond2.8 km away · prominence 88 m3,254m
- Pic de Marboré2.3 km away · prominence 78 m3,248m
- Pic du Taillon7.6 km away · prominence 342 m3,144m
- Pic Long13 km away · prominence 726 m3,192m
- Campbieil12 km away · prominence 271 m3,173m
- Pic de la Munia7.7 km away · prominence 683 m3,133m
51 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Cinca River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
SegreSpain265 km100 m³/sTributaries (10)
Also: Ésera, Alcanadre, Río Vero, Ara River, Sosa river, Clamor Amarga, Vellos River, Susía River, Yaga river, Barrosa River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q23152) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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