River
Dora Baltea
160 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Po
In numbers
Length
160km
Average flow
110m³/s
Basin
4,320km²
Drop
1,116m
from 1,271 m to 155 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
160 km of river and 18 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmconfluenceat 1,271 m
- 34 kmGrand Eyviatributary
- 42 kmAosta35,261 people
- 44 kmButhiertributary
- 51 kmQuart3,103 people
- 70 kmChatillon4,334 people
- 72 kmSaint-Vincent3,969 people
- 83 kmÉvançontributary
- 91 kmPonte di Bard
- 97 kmPont-Saint-Martin3,828 people
- 97 kmLystributary
- 111 kmMontalto Dora3,391 people
- 114 kmMarchetti Viaduct
- 114 kmBanchette3,273 people
- 115 kmPonte Vecchio
- 115 kmPonte Nuovo
- 115 kmIvrea railway bridge
- 115 kmIvrea23,599 people
- 116 kmPasserella Natale Capellaro
- 160 kmPoat 155 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Italy, Po tributary
At the mouth it carries 110 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 23 seconds. It drops from 1,271 m to 155 m, 7.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,320 km², about the size of CV. 230,000 people live in it. Highest water: from February to March and November. Its dams hold back little of its water (5.9% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- AostaLargest city on its banks · 35,261 people
- Turin Airport (TRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 65 km from the cityCar hire at TRN airport (Caselle Torinese)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Dora Baltea, month by month
Highest water: from February to March and November
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 29 m³/s in the lowest month to 310 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
Dora Baltea: the basin in numbers
3,921 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 230,000people live in the basin
- 59/km²people per km²
- 1,846maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,464mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 3.2°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 8%permafrost
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 51% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 3% 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
Dora Baltea: what you find on the way
- 96WeirsBriglia Selettiva, Naviglio di Ivrea, Roggia Pavassa and 93 more
- 1Locks
- 16WaterfallsCascata di Lenteney and 15 more
- 1Boat ramps
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Dora Baltea 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.
117mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (117)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mont Blanc7.9 km away · prominence 4,692 m4,806m
- Grandes Jorasses6.9 km away · prominence 852 m4,208m
- Mont Maudit7.9 km away · prominence 162 m4,465m
- Aiguille du Midi9.6 km away · prominence 310 m3,842m
- Picco Luigi Amedeo7.6 km away · prominence 39 m4,469m
- Dôme du Goûter9.9 km away · prominence 68 m4,304m
- Aiguille Verte14 km away · prominence 689 m4,122m
- Mont Blanc du Tacul7.8 km away · prominence 219 m4,248m
109 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
Dora Baltea in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
PoItaly652 km1,500 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Lys, Buthier, Grand Eyvia, Évançon, Dora di Verney
Nearby
Rivers nearby
FranceWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q675028) · 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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