River
Gállego
193 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Ebro
In numbers
Length
193km
Average flow
34m³/s
Basin
4,009km²
Drop
1,040m
from 1,230 m to 190 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
193 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmPourtalet mountain passat 1,230 m
- 3 kmLanuza Reservoir0.9 km²
- 12 kmBúbal reservoir1.7 km²
- 21 kmRío Auríntributary
- 36 kmSabiñánigo10,378 people
- 40 kmBasa rivertributary
- 61 kmGuarga Rivertributary
- 88 kmLa Peña Reservoir1.5 km²
- 141 kmSotón rivertributary
- 161 kmZuera6,098 people
- 176 kmVillanueva de Gállego3,809 people
- 184 kmPasarela de los Estrechos
- 190 kmPuente de Hierro sobre el Gállego
- 192 kmZaragoza666,880 people
- 193 kmEbroat 190 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Aragon, Spain
At the mouth it carries 34 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 73 seconds. It drops from 1,230 m to 190 m, 5.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,009 km², about the size of CV. 166,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January; lowest: August. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (24% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ZaragozaLargest city on its banks · 666,880 people
- Zaragoza Airport (ZAZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 14 km from the cityCar hire in ZaragozaDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe21 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Gállego, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 15 m³/s in the lowest month to 53 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
Gállego: the basin in numbers
4,010 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 166,000people live in the basin
- 41/km²people per km²
- 791maverage altitude of the basin
- 658mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.3°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 0.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 40% Forest
- 28% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
- 1% 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
Gállego: what you find on the way
- 28WeirsAzud de Urdán and 27 more
- 10Locks
- 7WaterfallsEl Salto, o Saldo, Cascada de l'Asieso and 4 more
- 16RapidsOlas de Anzanigo, Rock splash, El Rulo de Murillo and 13 more
- 5Canoe put-insAcceso aguas bravas Sta elena - Biescas, Acceso aguas bravas Javierrelatre - Anzanigo, Embarque aguas bravas Gállego, Presa de la peña - Murillo and 2 more
- 4Boat ramps
- 1Ferry piersEl Puerto
- 1MarinasEmbarcadero
- 1River beachesPlaya Fluvial del Huerva
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Gállego 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
37mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lanuza Reservoirkm 20.9km²
- Búbal reservoirkm 111.7km²
- La Peña Reservoirkm 781.5km²
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Mountains at the source (37)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Balaïtous11 km away · prominence 849 m3,144m
- Collarada11 km away · prominence 800 m2,886m
- Pic du Midi d'Ossau4.6 km away2,884m
- Grande Fache15 km away · prominence 283 m3,005m
- Argualas13 km away · prominence 71 m3,046m
- Pic Palas9.9 km away · prominence 356 m2,974m
- Infierno Oriental13 km away3,076m
- Infierno Occidental13 km away3,073m
29 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
Gállego in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
EbroSpain910 km430 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Río Aguas Limpias, Guarga River, Sotón river, Río Aurín, Basa river, Escarra river, Caldarés river, barranco de Sía, Garona River, Tulivana River, Moro River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Spain224 km21 m³/s35 km awaySegreSpain265 km100 m³/s102 km awayAragónSpain195 km41 m³/s98 km awayGuadalopeSpain160 km4.8 m³/s80 km awayArgaSpain145 km60 m³/s103 km awayCinca RiverSpain170 km100 m³/s103 km awayNoguera PallaresaSpain154 km37 m³/s147 km awayAdour
France308 km350 m³/s216 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q23130) · 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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