River
Enguri
213 km from source to mouth · Georgia.
GeorgiaFlows into Black Sea3rd longest in Georgia
In numbers
Length
213km
Average flow
40m³/s
Basin
4,060km²
Drop
2,038m
from 2,037 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
213 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmCaucasus Mountainsat 2,037 m
- 47 kmMulkhratributary
- 55 kmDolratributary
- 75 kmNakratributary
- 98 kmNenskratributary
- 134 kmJvari Reservoir4.8 km²
- 134 kmEnguri Arch Dam
- 141 kmJvari4,970 people
- 168 kmEnguri Bridge
- 213 kmJumitributary
- 213 kmBlack Seaat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Georgia
At the mouth it carries 40 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 63 seconds. It drops from 2,037 m to -1 m, 9.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,060 km², about the size of CV. 145,000 people live in it. Highest water: from October to January. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (22% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- JvariLargest city on its banks · 4,970 people
- David the Builder Kutaisi International Airport (KUT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 70 km from the cityCar hire at KUT airport (Kopitnari)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- May and from July to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Enguri, month by month
Highest water: from October to January
Best months to visit: May and from July to September.
From about 71 m³/s in the lowest month to 300 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
Enguri: the basin in numbers
4,051 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 145,000people live in the basin
- 36/km²people per km²
- 1,833maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,138mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 4.5°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 6%glaciers
- 15%permafrost
- 1.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 49% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 45% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
- 6% Ice
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
Enguri: what you find on the way
- 5Weirs
- 9Waterfalls
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Enguri 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
25mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Jvari Reservoirkm 121 · 226 m deep4.8km²
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Mountains at the source (25)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Shkhara5.4 km away · prominence 1,357 m5,193m
- Dykh-Tau11 km away · prominence 2,002 m5,204m
- Janga7.4 km away · prominence 335 m5,051m
- Koshtan-Tau15 km away · prominence 812 m5,144m
- Shota Rustaveli Peak6.0 km away · prominence 40 m4,960m
- Tetnuldi11 km away · prominence 629 m4,858m
- Katyn-Tau9.2 km away · prominence 159 m4,979m
- Gistola11 km away · prominence 335 m4,860m
17 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
Enguri in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (10)
Also: Mulkhra, Nenskra, Nakra, Jumi, Dolra, Olori, Lasili, Larakvakva, Adishchala, Khumpreri
Nearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q504388) · 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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