Stream
Çoruh
438 km from source to mouth · Georgia and Turkey.
Georgia and TurkeyFlows into Black Sea1st longest in Georgia
In numbers
Length
438km
Average flow
280m³/s
Basin
22,000km²
Drop
2,042m
from 2,043 m to 1 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
438 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,043 m
- 96 kmBayburt48,036 people
- 177 kmPazaryolu5,878 people
- 203 kmİspir12,906 people
- 284 kmYusufeli6,847 people
- 285 kmBarhal Çayıtributary
- 295 kmOltu rivertributary
- 295 kmYusufeli Dam
- 357 kmBerta Brooktributary
- 361 kmArtvin25,841 people
- 390 kmBorçka9,942 people
- 412 kmKirnati HPP weir
- 412 kmMachakhlistskalitributary
- 416 kmAcharistsqalitributary
- 417 kmKhelvachauri-1 HPP weir
- 429 kmAkhaltsopeli, Khelvachauri Municipality2,241 people
- 438 kmBlack Seaat 1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Georgia and Turkey
At the mouth it carries 285 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 8.8 seconds. It drops from 2,043 m to 1 m, 4.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 22,000 km², about the size of BZ. 451,000 people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from January to February and from August to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BayburtLargest city on its banks · 48,036 people
- Erzincan Airport (ERC)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 85 km from the cityCar hire at TZX airport (Trabzon)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Çoruh, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from January to February and from August to September. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 93 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,000 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
Çoruh: the basin in numbers
22,011 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 451,000people live in the basin
- 20/km²people per km²
- 1,845maverage altitude of the basin
- 666mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.9°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 25% Forest
- 12% Cropland
- 34% 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
Çoruh: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 8WaterfallsMirveti Waterfall, Love waterfall, waterfall and 5 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Çoruh 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.
16mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (16)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cılak Tepesi11 km away2,372m
- Ziyaret Hill13 km away
- Sulak Hill8.7 km away
- Peynir Dağı12 km away
- Ardıçı Hill3.4 km away
- Güneybaşı Hill10 km away
- Çıplak Hill11 km away
- Çiğdem Hill8.0 km away
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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
Çoruh in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (7)
Also: Acharistsqali, Machakhlistskali, Oltu river, Barhal Çayı, Berta Brook, Charnali, Boloko
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Georgia327 km400 m³/s67 km awayEnguriGeorgia213 km40 m³/s88 km awayTskhenistsqaliGeorgia184 km90 m³/s83 km awayQvirila RiverGeorgia140 km90 m³/s114 km awayKodori RiverGeorgia84 km140 m³/s138 km awayBzyb RiverGeorgia110 km97 m³/s205 km awayAkhurian RiverTurkey186 km270 m³/s239 km awayPsouGeorgia53 km19 m³/s236 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q70970) · 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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