River
Gaoping River
171 km from source to mouth · Taiwan.
TaiwanFlows into Taiwan Strait2nd longest in Taiwan
In numbers
Length
171km
Average flow
270m³/s
Basin
3,257km²
Drop
1,849m
from 1,849 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
171 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmYushan Main Peakat 1,849 m
- 125 kmLigang Bridge
- 130 kmAiliao Rivertributary
- 130 kmQishan Rivertributary
- 133 kmLaonong Rivertributary
- 133 kmKao-Ping Hsi Bridge
- 149 kmWuluo Rivertributary
- 171 kmTaiwan Straitat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Soutnern Taiwan
At the mouth it carries 268 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 9.3 seconds. It drops from 1,849 m to 0 m, 11 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,257 km², about the size of CV. 731,000 people live in it. Highest water: August; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- DonggangLargest city on its banks · 47,746 people
- Kaohsiung International Airport (KHH)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the cityCar hire in KaohsiungDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Gaoping River, month by month
Highest water: August
Lowest water: from December to March. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 37 m³/s in the lowest month to 390 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
Gaoping River: the basin in numbers
3,249 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 731,000people live in the basin
- 227/km²people per km²
- 1,067maverage altitude of the basin
- 3,029mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 18.3°Caverage air temperature
- 22%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 77% Forest
- 12% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
- 10% 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
Gaoping River: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Gaoping River 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.
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
71mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Xiziwan Haishui Yuchang20 km away29.3°C
Mountains at the source (71)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Yushan Main Peak9.0 km away · prominence 3,952 m3,952m
- Xiuguluan Mountain15 km away3,825m
- Yushan Northern Peak11 km away3,858m
- Yushan East Peak9.1 km away3,869m
- Yushan Southern Peak6.5 km away3,844m
- Mt. Yushan Northern North Peak11 km away3,833m
- East Xiaonan Mountain5.7 km away3,771m
- Linzhi Shan12 km away3,854m
63 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Lamay Island21 km away6.8km²
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Gaoping River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Qishan River, Laonong River, Ailiao River, Wuluo River
China
PhilippinesWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q57256) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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