River
Ergene
283 km from source to mouth · Turkey.
TurkeyFlows into Maritsa
In numbers
Length
283km
Average flow
64m³/s
Basin
17,323km²
Drop
126m
from 132 m to 6 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
283 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmStrandzhaat 132 m
- 0 kmVize11,027 people
- 178 kmPehlivanköy3,153 people
- 215 kmUzunköprü36,470 people
- 216 kmUzunköprü Bridge
- 283 kmMaritsaat 6 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Turkey
At the mouth it carries 64 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 39 seconds. It drops from 132 m to 6 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 17,323 km², about the size of SZ. 876,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February; lowest: from July to October. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (26% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- UzunköprüLargest city on its banks · 36,470 people
- Alexandroupoli Democritus Airport (AXD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 76 km from the cityCar hire at AXD airport (Alexandroupolis)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ergene, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 14 m³/s in the lowest month to 150 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
Ergene: the basin in numbers
10,981 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 876,000people live in the basin
- 80/km²people per km²
- 169maverage altitude of the basin
- 626mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 13.0°Caverage air temperature
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.5km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 3% Forest
- 48% Cropland
- 4% 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
Ergene: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ergene 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.
5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (5)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Taşpınar Hill5.3 km away
- Ayranbayır Hill1.5 km away
- Karaçalılık Hill6.4 km away
- Hisar Hill13 km away
- Bakacak Hill10 km away
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
Ergene in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
MaritsaTurkey490 km200 m³/sIn the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Greece
BulgariaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q396585) · 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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