River
Hakari River
170 km from source to mouth · Azerbaijan.
AzerbaijanFlows into Aras River8th longest in Azerbaijan
In numbers
Length
170km
Average flow
16m³/s
Basin
2,570km²
Drop
2,163m
from 2,437 m to 274 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
170 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,437 m
- 73 kmLaçın2,300 people
- 85 kmZabukhchaytributary
- 152 kmVorotan Rivertributary
- 170 kmAras Riverat 274 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Azerbaijan
At the mouth it carries 16 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 154 seconds. It drops from 2,437 m to 274 m, 13 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,570 km², about the size of LU. 204,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to June; lowest: from August to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (43% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- LaçınLargest city on its banks · 2,300 people
- Lachin International Airport (LHL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 32 km from the cityCar hire at GNJ airport (Ganja)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to OctoberThe best months to visit
Hakari River, month by month
Highest water: from May to June
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from June to October.
From about 5.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 120 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
Hakari River: the basin in numbers
5,553 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 204,000people live in the basin
- 37/km²people per km²
- 1,838maverage altitude of the basin
- 535mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.2°Caverage air temperature
- 15%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 4% Forest
- 21% Cropland
- 34% 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
Hakari River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Hakari 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.
13mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (13)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Gora Sarybaba8.1 km away2,295m
- Gorgasar Lerr11 km away2,318m
- Lisaya Gora Lerr14 km away2,182m
- Laçın Dağı5.4 km away1,929m
- Hoçaz Dağı5.8 km away1,918m
- Datmelik15 km away1,834m
- Gora Gyuren-Bab11 km away1,854m
- Karabakhskiy Khrebet8.8 km away1,837m
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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
Hakari River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Aras RiverAzerbaijan1,072 km280 m³/sIn the same basin
Azerbaijan1,360 km440 m³/sAlazaniAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/sHrazdan River
Armenia141 km18 m³/sAkhurian River
Turkey186 km270 m³/sIori RiverAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/sDebed
Georgia178 km30 m³/sAragvi RiverGeorgia112 km33 m³/sArpa RiverAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/sKhrami RiverAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/sAzat RiverArmenia55 km36 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Azerbaijan178 km22 m³/s11 km awayTartarAzerbaijan184 km23 m³/s150 km awayKura RiverAzerbaijan1,360 km440 m³/s222 km awayArpa RiverAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/s166 km awayAlazaniAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/s203 km awayIori RiverAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/s211 km awayHrazdan RiverArmenia141 km18 m³/s226 km awayAzat RiverArmenia55 km36 m³/s219 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q154226) · 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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