River
Devoll
196 km from source to mouth · Albania.
AlbaniaFlows into Seman3rd longest in Albania
In numbers
Length
196km
Average flow
48m³/s
Basin
3,240km²
Drop
906m
from 929 m to 23 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
196 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 929 m
- 17 kmBilisht7,287 people
- 61 kmMaliq3,735 people
- 135 kmGramsh11,556 people
- 137 kmPishaj4,906 people
- 155 kmLake Banja1.3 km²
- 170 kmKlos3,262 people
- 191 kmKozarë5,622 people
- 192 kmKuçovë31,077 people
- 196 kmSemanat 23 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Albania
At the mouth it carries 48 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 52 seconds. It drops from 929 m to 23 m, 4.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,240 km², about the size of CV. 230,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KuçovëLargest city on its banks · 31,077 people
- Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 70 km from the cityCar hire at TIA airport (Rinas)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Devoll, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 10 m³/s in the lowest month to 94 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
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The basin
Devoll: the basin in numbers
3,181 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 230,000people live in the basin
- 72/km²people per km²
- 949maverage altitude of the basin
- 970mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.1°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 12% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 10% 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
Devoll: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Devoll 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
29mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Banjakm 1321.3km²
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Mountains at the source (29)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Triklario14 km away1,776m
- Mal Ivan7.9 km away1,710m
- Guri i Capit14 km away1,552m
- Tsoutsouli12 km away1,455m
- Mali i Strugarit8.3 km away1,543m
- Kaluger Mountain10 km away1,480m
- Mali i Karvaqit9.0 km away1,464m
- Sllivë7.2 km away1,414m
21 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
Devoll in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
SemanAlbania85 km100 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Tomorricë, Përroi i Holtës
In the same basin
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q83839) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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