River
Gave d'Oloron
149 km from source to mouth · France.
FranceFlows into Gaves réunis
In numbers
Length
149km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
2,456km²
Drop
671m
from 677 m to 6 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
149 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmOloron-Sainte-Marieat 677 m
- 55 kmOloron-Sainte-Marie12,611 people
- 55 kmGave d'Ossautributary
- 55 kmGave d'Aspetributary
- 55 kmEscoutributary
- 59 kmLedeuix1,190 people
- 63 kmVerttributary
- 77 kmJoostributary
- 87 kmNavarrenx1,275 people
- 112 kmLaussettributary
- 114 kmSauveterre-de-Béarn1,375 people
- 115 kmPont de la Légende
- 119 kmSaisontributary
- 148 kmPeyrehorade3,419 people
- 149 kmGaves réunisat 6 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in France
At the mouth it carries 102 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 25 seconds. It drops from 677 m to 6 m, 4.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,456 km², about the size of RE. 69,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: July. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Oloron-Sainte-MarieLargest city on its banks · 12,611 people
- Pau Pyrénées Airport (PUF)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 26 km from the cityCar hire at LDE airport (Tarbes/Lourdes/Pyrénées)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe3 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Gave d'Oloron, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: July. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 21 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 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
Gave d'Oloron: the basin in numbers
2,667 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 69,000people live in the basin
- 26/km²people per km²
- 754maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,065mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.7°Caverage air temperature
- 37%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 58% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 23% 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
Gave d'Oloron: what you find on the way
- 42WeirsPrise d'Eau, Barrage de Lailhacar, Barrage hydroélectrique Dabadie and 39 more
- 2LocksLocal DMS
- 3WaterfallsCascade supérieure de l'Espalungue, Cascade inférieure de l'Espalungue
- 3Rapids
- 5Boat rampsCentrale de Soeix, Légugnon, Pont de Navarrenx and 2 more
- 4River beachesSablière d'Estos, Plage d'Orin, Plage de Poey d'Oloron and 1 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Gave d'Oloron 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.
25mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (25)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mesa de los Tres Reyes14 km away · prominence 392 m2,446m
- Pic d'Anie14 km away · prominence 844 m2,507m
- Pic du Midi d'Ossau11 km away2,884m
- Aspe peak14 km away · prominence 501 m2,645m
- Bisaurin13 km away · prominence 1,039 m2,668m
- Larra-Belagua massif14 km away2,504m
- Pic Peyreget12 km away2,487m
- Pic d'Ansabère14 km away2,377m
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
Gave d'Oloron in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (11)
Also: Gave d'Ossau, Gave d'Aspe, Saison, Vert, Joos, Lausset, Saleys, Auronce, Escou, Gave de Soussouéou, Layoû
In the same basin
Nearby
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SpainWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1194777) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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