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River

Delgermörön

445 km from source to mouth · Mongolia and Russia.

MongoliaRussiaMongolia and RussiaFlows into Selenga8th longest in Mongolia

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

In numbers

Length

445km

Average flow

35m³/s

Basin

26,640km²

Drop

939m

from 2,115 m to 1,176 m

Countries

2

The journey

From source to mouth

445 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

2,115 m1,176 m
Sourceat 2,115 m0 km
Mörön39,404 people352 km
Selengaat 1,176 m445 km
0100200300400445 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 2,115 m
  2. 352 kmMörön39,404 people
  3. 429 kmBügsiin Rivertributary
  4. 445 kmSelengaat 1,176 m

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

River

At the mouth it carries 35 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 71 seconds. It drops from 2,115 m to 1,176 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 26,640 km², about the size of RW. 55,000 people live in it. Highest water: from July to August; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.

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Where to start

  • MörönLargest city on its banks · 39,404 people
  • Mörön Airport (MXV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 6 km from the city
  • From June to AugustThe best months to visit

Delgermörön, month by month

Highest water: from July to August

Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.

5.3
-26°2 mmJan
5.3
-23°1 mmFeb
5.3
-13°3 mmMar
5.3
-1°8 mmApr
70
7°15 mmMay
110
13°47 mmJun
190
14°72 mmJul
210
12°59 mmAug
170
6°23 mmSep
82
-3°9 mmOct
23
-15°5 mmNov
5.3
-23°3 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 5.3 m³/s in the lowest month to 210 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

Delgermörön: the basin in numbers

22,728 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.
  • 55,000people live in the basin
  • 2/km²people per km²
  • 1,969maverage altitude of the basin
  • 277mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • -6.6°Caverage air temperature
  • 2%protected areas
  • 0.3%covered by lakes
  • 66%permafrost

What covers the basin

  • 13% Forest
  • 2% Cropland
  • 48% Pasture

RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Delgermörön: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Delgermörön: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth21 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

Delgermörön in pictures

Market in Mörön 02
Bernard Gagnon · CC0
Market in Mörön 01
Bernard Gagnon · CC0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

SelengaRussiaRussia1,024 km940 m³/s

Tributaries (1)

Also: Bügsiin River

In the same basin

YeniseiRussiaRussia3,487 km19,800 m³/sAngaraRussiaRussia1,779 km4,500 m³/sNizhnyaya TunguskaRussiaRussia2,989 km3,700 m³/sPodkamennaya TunguskaRussiaRussia1,865 km1,600 m³/sOrkhon RiverMongoliaMongolia1,124 km120 m³/sAbakanRussiaRussia514 km380 m³/sOkaRussiaRussia630 km270 m³/sUdaRussiaRussia1,203 km300 m³/sIrkutRussiaRussia488 km140 m³/sTuul RiverMongoliaMongolia704 km37 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Ider RiverMongoliaMongolia452 km57 m³/s0 km awayChuluut RiverMongoliaMongolia415 km25 m³/s10 km awayEg RiverMongoliaMongolia475 km100 m³/s214 km awayTuul RiverMongoliaMongolia704 km37 m³/s301 km awayOrkhon RiverMongoliaMongolia1,124 km120 m³/s407 km awayIrkutRussiaRussia488 km140 m³/s423 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q401637) · 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

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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