River
Crișul Repede River
209 km from source to mouth · Hungary and Romania.
Hungary and RomaniaFlows into Körös River8th longest in Hungary
In numbers
Length
209km
Average flow
19m³/s
Basin
2,973km²
Drop
431m
from 509 m to 78 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
209 km of river and 22 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmApuseni Mountainsat 509 m
- 0 kmHuedin9,395 people
- 14 kmSăcuieu Rivertributary
- 21 kmDrăgan Rivertributary
- 24 kmCiucea4,393 people
- 41 kmIada Rivertributary
- 46 kmBratca5,462 people
- 47 kmValea Boiului Rivertributary
- 53 kmŞuncuiuş3,444 people
- 60 kmVadu Crişului4,311 people
- 64 kmBorod Rivertributary
- 74 kmAleşd10,264 people
- 76 kmAştileu3,728 people
- 79 kmLugaşu de Jos3,252 people
- 92 kmTileagd6,994 people
- 99 kmIneu4,007 people
- 107 kmOșorhei3,179 people
- 115 kmPeța Rivertributary
- 115 kmOradea183,105 people
- 123 kmSântandrei3,902 people
- 159 kmKomádi6,091 people
- 194 kmKörösladány5,006 people
- 198 kmBarcău Rivertributary
- 209 kmKörös Riverat 78 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Romania and Hungary
At the mouth it carries 19 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 130 seconds. It drops from 509 m to 78 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,973 km², about the size of LU. 1.5 million people live in it. Highest water: February, April and June. Its dams hold back little of its water (7.0% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- OradeaLargest city on its banks · 183,105 people
- Oradea International Airport (OMR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the cityCar hire at DEB airport (Debrecen)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Crișul Repede River, month by month
Highest water: February, April and June
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 54 m³/s in the lowest month to 220 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
Crișul Repede River: the basin in numbers
21,607 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 70/km²people per km²
- 253maverage altitude of the basin
- 623mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.9°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 24% Forest
- 45% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 2% 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
Crișul Repede River: what you find on the way
- 7Weirs
- 5WaterfallsCascada Boiului, Cascada Vadu Crișului and 3 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Crișul Repede 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
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
Crișul Repede River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Körös RiverHungary93 km21 m³/sTributaries (32)
Also: Dotmir River, Domoș River, Borod River, Călata River, Peța River, Alceu River, Drăgan River, Beznea River, Brătcuța River, Chijic River, Dobrinești River, Gepiș River, Iada River, Poicu River, Valea Satului River, Surduc River, Canalu de Apă, Medeș River, Mișid River, Mniera River, Negrea River, Neportoc River, Pasteur River, Pârâul Omului River
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Hungary134 km6.1 m³/s8 km awayCrișul Alb RiverHungary236 km24 m³/s22 km awayMureș RiverHungary803 km160 m³/s100 km awayZagyvaHungary179 km9.5 m³/s64 km awaySajóHungary229 km70 m³/s113 km awayHornádHungary286 km31 m³/s115 km awayBodrogHungary67 km120 m³/s138 km awayTisza
Serbia966 km800 m³/s205 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q581015) · 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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