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River

Debed

178 km from source to mouth · Georgia and Armenia.

GeorgiaArmeniaGeorgia and ArmeniaFlows into Khrami River5th longest in Georgia

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The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

178km

Average flow

30m³/s

Basin

4,050km²

Drop

1,247m

from 1,549 m to 302 m

Countries

2

The journey

From source to mouth

178 km of river and 26 stops on the way: 22 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

1,549 m302 m
Dseghat 1,549 m0 km
Tashir7,840 people19 km
Stepanavan11,982 people40 km
Agarak1,221 people49 km
Dsegh2,137 people73 km
Dzoraget Rivertributary77 km
Alaverdi13,000 people97 km
Akhtala2,100 people115 km
Ayrum2,400 people132 km
Sadakhlo7,337 people147 km
Khrami Riverat 302 m178 km
050100150178 km
  1. 0 kmDseghat 1,549 m
  2. 19 kmTashir7,840 people
  3. 40 kmStepanavan11,982 people
  4. 49 kmAgarak1,221 people
  5. 57 kmVardablur1,062 people
  6. 62 kmKurtan1,425 people
  7. 73 kmDsegh2,137 people
  8. 77 kmDzoraget Rivertributary
  9. 77 kmPambak Rivertributary
  10. 79 kmTumanyan1,456 people
  11. 83 kmArdvi177 people
  12. 88 kmOdzun4,196 people
  13. 93 kmAkori2,314 people
  14. 97 kmAlaverdi13,000 people
  15. 97 kmSanahin Bridge
  16. 101 kmAkner512 people
  17. 115 kmAkhtala2,100 people
  18. 116 kmPokr Ayrum160 people
  19. 121 kmShnogh2,758 people
  20. 124 kmChochkan1,970 people
  21. 127 kmArchis1,088 people
  22. 130 kmLchkadzor433 people
  23. 132 kmAyrum2,400 people
  24. 134 kmHaghtanak1,149 people
  25. 143 kmBagratshan Sadakhlo border bridge
  26. 146 kmBagratashen2,940 people
  27. 147 kmSadakhlo7,337 people
  28. 178 kmKhrami Riverat 302 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Arnenia and Georgia

At the mouth it carries 30 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 84 seconds. It drops from 1,549 m to 302 m, 7.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,050 km², about the size of CV. 260,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to June; lowest: from January to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.

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Where to start

Debed, month by month

Highest water: from May to June

Lowest water: from January to February. Best months to visit: from June to September.

13
-1°20 mmJan
21
0°26 mmFeb
44
4°36 mmMar
48
10°54 mmApr
65
15°89 mmMay
63
18°80 mmJun
42
21°49 mmJul
29
21°42 mmAug
24
17°37 mmSep
30
12°41 mmOct
32
6°33 mmNov
26
1°20 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 13 m³/s in the lowest month to 65 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.

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The basin

Debed: the basin in numbers

4,068 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Free-flowingDams upstream can hold only 0.0% of a year's flow: the river still keeps its natural rhythm.
  • 260,000people live in the basin
  • 64/km²people per km²
  • 1,672maverage altitude of the basin
  • 605mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 6.0°Caverage air temperature
  • 1%protected areas

What covers the basin

  • 9% Forest
  • 17% Cropland
  • 28% 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

Debed: what you find on the way

  • 12Dams
  • 2Waterfalls

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Debed 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.

  • 14mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Mountains at the source (14)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Dzhasar12 km away2,245m
  2. Qarhat12 km away2,230m
  3. Mrdzakar10 km away2,203m
  4. Metstun14 km away2,164m
  5. Glut14 km away2,105m
  6. Shahapants15 km away2,122m
  7. Gutanaqar15 km away1,915m
  8. Mijnaqar11 km away1,906m

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Debed: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Debed: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth10 km across

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

Debed in pictures

Debeda River
Kober · Public domain
Debed River, Alaverdi, Armenia
Deb Collins · CC BY 2.0
Debed River in Alaverdi city (29.07.2023)
Gardmanahay · CC BY-SA 4.0
Debed river
Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

Khrami RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/s

Tributaries (4)

Also: Pambak River, Dzoraget River, Marts, Shnogh

In the same basin

Kura RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan1,360 km440 m³/sAras RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan1,072 km280 m³/sAlazaniAzerbaijanAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/sHrazdan RiverArmeniaArmenia141 km18 m³/sAkhurian RiverTurkeyTurkey186 km270 m³/sIori RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/sVorotan RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan178 km22 m³/sAragvi RiverGeorgiaGeorgia112 km33 m³/sArpa RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/sAzat RiverArmeniaArmenia55 km36 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Aragvi RiverGeorgiaGeorgia112 km33 m³/s55 km awayAghstevAzerbaijanAzerbaijan133 km8.2 m³/s46 km awayKsaniGeorgiaGeorgia84 km15 m³/s61 km awayAlazaniAzerbaijanAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/s151 km awayIori RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/s137 km awayHrazdan RiverArmeniaArmenia141 km18 m³/s161 km awayAkhurian RiverTurkeyTurkey186 km270 m³/s177 km awayAzat RiverArmeniaArmenia55 km36 m³/s163 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q1140988) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesPeakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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