River
Huallaga River
1,080 km from source to mouth · Peru.
PeruFlows into Marañón River4th longest in Peru
In numbers
Length
1,080km
Average flow
3,800m³/s
Basin
95,000km²
Drop
3,550m
from 3,658 m to 108 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,080 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 3,658 m
- 89 kmHuánuco196,627 people
- 215 kmTingo María53,177 people
- 216 kmMonzon Rivertributary
- 217 kmCastillo Grande12,438 people
- 400 kmTocache29,029 people
- 552 kmJuanjuí37,715 people
- 572 kmBellavista15,231 people
- 651 kmMayo Rivertributary
- 653 kmCatarata de Pucayaquillo
- 671 kmChazuta8,029 people
- 841 kmYurimaguas41,827 people
- 950 kmLaguna Tipishca (lanaw nga porma ug arko, lat -5,45, long -75,82)2.3 km²
- 993 kmLagunas9,197 people
- 1,030 kmHigueras Rivertributary
- 1,080 kmMarañón Riverat 108 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Peru
At the mouth it carries 3,800 m³/s on average: 1.5 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 3,658 m to 108 m, 3.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 95,000 km², about the size of HU. 1.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- HuánucoLargest city on its banks · 196,627 people
- Alferez Fap David Figueroa Fernandini Airport (HUU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 7 km from the cityCar hire at LIM airport (Lima)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water30 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Huallaga River, month by month
Highest water: from January to April
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 2,400 m³/s in the lowest month to 5,400 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
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The basin
Huallaga River: the basin in numbers
90,046 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 18/km²people per km²
- 1,426maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,516mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 20.7°Caverage air temperature
- 34%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 72% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 5% 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
Huallaga River: what you find on the way
- 7WaterfallsCatarata Honolulo, Catarata Velo de las Ninfas, Catarata Velo de los Ninfas and 4 more
- 27Ferry piersPuerto Cangrejo, Puerto Tarata, Amberes and 24 more
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Huallaga 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Catarata de Pucayaquillokm 657
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Laguna Tipishca (lanaw nga porma ug arko, lat -5,45, long -75,82)km 9562.3km²
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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
Huallaga River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Marañón RiverPeru1,737 km16,700 m³/sTributaries (47)
Also: Mayo River, Monzon River, Tingo River, Paranapura River, Chipurana River, Higueras River, Quebrada Cachiyacu Santa Ana, Aipena River, Aucayacu River, Aspuzana River, Biavo River, Blanco River, Cachiyacu Lupuna River, Cainarache River, Cañuto River, Chaupihuaranga river, Chinchao River, Chinobamba River, Chontayacu River, Cuchara River, Cuñumbusa River, Espino River, Garbanza River, Huamuco River
In the same basin
Brazil6,400 km209,000 m³/sRio NegroBrazil2,250 km30,000 m³/sMadeira RiverBrazil1,450 km31,200 m³/sUcayali RiverPeru1,460 km12,600 m³/sJapurá RiverBrazil2,820 km13,900 m³/sXingu RiverBrazil1,640 km9,700 m³/sMamoré RiverBrazil1,930 km11,600 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 (Q611388) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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