River
Guaporé River
1,210 km from source to mouth · Brazil and Bolivia.
Brazil and BoliviaFlows into Mamoré River
In numbers
Length
1,210km
Average flow
1.5m³/s
Basin
266,460km²
Drop
439m
from 566 m to 127 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
1,210 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 566 m
- 116 kmPontes e Lacerda45,774 people
- 193 kmVila Bela da Santíssima Trindade17,384 people
- 457 kmPaucerna Rivertributary
- 561 kmParaguá Rivertributary
- 980 kmCosta Marques12,627 people
- 1,002 kmItonomas Rivertributary
- 1,012 kmCentral Bi-Oceanic International Bridge
- 1,043 kmCautário Rivertributary
- 1,210 kmMamoré Riverat 127 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River of Brazil & Bolivia
At the mouth it carries 1.5 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1,634 seconds. It drops from 566 m to 127 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 266,460 km², about the size of GA. 5.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to March; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Pontes e LacerdaLargest city on its banks · 45,774 people
- On the water12 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Guaporé River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 2,200 m³/s in the lowest month to 17,100 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
Guaporé River: the basin in numbers
590,061 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 5.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 9/km²people per km²
- 551maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,433mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.6°Caverage air temperature
- 20%protected areas
- 0.8%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 62% Forest
- 3% Cropland
- 33% Pasture
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
Guaporé River: what you find on the way
- 9Ferry piersBalsa Fazenda Tripoloni, Puerto Villazón, Costa Marques and 6 more
- 3Marinas
- 1River beachesLimoeiro - Berçário de Tartarugas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Guaporé River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Mamoré RiverBrazil1,930 km11,600 m³/sTributaries (16)
Also: Río Blanco, Paraguá River, Paucerna River, Cautário River, Branco River, Branco River, Corumbiara River, Galera River, Guaritire River, Sararé River, São Domingos River, Verde River, São Simão River, São Miguel River, Colorado River
In the same basin
Brazil6,400 km209,000 m³/sRio NegroBrazil2,250 km30,000 m³/sMadeira RiverBrazil1,450 km31,200 m³/sMarañón River
Peru1,737 km16,700 m³/sUcayali RiverPeru1,460 km12,600 m³/sJapurá RiverBrazil2,820 km13,900 m³/sXingu RiverBrazil1,640 km9,700 m³/sJuruá RiverBrazil3,100 km4,800 m³/sTapajós RiverBrazil1,930 km13,000 m³/sPutumayo RiverBrazil1,610 km7,000 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q916349) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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