River
Dajabón River
55 km from source to mouth · Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Dominican Republic and HaitiFlows into Atlantic Ocean3rd longest in Dominican Republic
In numbers
Length
55km
Average flow
8.6m³/s
Basin
858km²
Drop
63m
from 68 m to 5 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
55 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 68 m
- 24 kmDajabón16,398 people
- 25 kmOuanaminthe10,118 people
- 45 kmLaguna La Jagua1.7 km²
- 52 kmLagon aux Bœufs3.4 km²
- 54 kmPepillo Salcedo3,866 people
- 55 kmAtlantic Oceanat 5 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River of the Dominican Republic and Haiti
At the mouth it carries 8.6 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 290 seconds. It drops from 68 m to 5 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 858 km².
Where to start
- DajabónLargest city on its banks · 16,398 people
- Cap Haitien International Airport (CAP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 55 km from the cityCar hire at CAP airport (Cap Haitien)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Dajabón River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Dajabón 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
8beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
31mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Laguna La Jaguakm 291.7km²
- Lagon aux Bœufskm 333.4km²
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Beaches (8)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Playa Juan de Bolaños19 km away29.2°C
- Playa de Punta Luna10 km away29.2°C
- Plage la Bouque19 km away29.2°C
- Anse de Jacquezy25 km away · cove29.2°C
- Baie Est8.0 km away · cove29.2°C
- Baie Sud Est8.6 km away · cove29.2°C
- Baie Torpedo15 km away · cove29.2°C
- Baie Ouest16 km away · cove29.2°C
Mountains at the source (31)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cerro Trinitaria13 km away
- Cerro Prieto8.9 km away
- Cerro Pico del Gallo14 km away
- Cerro de Partido12 km away
- Loma de Perico12 km away
- Loma de Periquete15 km away
- Cerro Monte12 km away
- Loma de Los Jíbaros11 km away
23 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
Dajabón River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: rivière de Capolitte
Nearby
Rivers nearby
CubaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q944185) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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