River
Huangpu River
97 km from source to mouth · China.
ChinaFlows into Yangtze River
In numbers
Length
97km
Average flow
370m³/s
Basin
3,653km²
Drop
2m
from 0 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
97 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmLake Taiat 0 m
- 63 kmChangzheng229,925 people
- 67 kmXupu Bridge
- 68 kmJing’an936,500 people
- 68 kmChangning694,900 people
- 74 kmZhabei840,000 people
- 75 kmPuxi6,683,712 people
- 76 kmHuangpu656,200 people
- 77 kmHongkou687,500 people
- 77 kmLupu Bridge
- 77 kmSuzhou Creektributary
- 78 kmRenmin Road Tunnel
- 78 kmNanpu Bridge
- 78 kmPudong5,681,512 people
- 80 kmYangpu1,210,800 people
- 82 kmYangpu Bridge
- 86 kmJinqiao28,000 people
- 97 kmJiaohuan Tunnel
- 97 kmOuter Ring Tunnel
- 97 kmSongnan127,347 people
- 97 kmYangtze Riverat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Major tributary of the Yangtze flowing through central Shanghai, now the municipality's largest river after floods during the Yuan and Ming dynasties
At the mouth it carries 366 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 6.8 seconds. Its basin covers 3,653 km², about the size of CV. 37.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from June to September. Its dams hold back little of its water (7.5% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- PuxiLargest city on its banks · 6,683,712 people
- Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 14 km from the city
- On the water42 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From April to May and OctoberThe best months to visit
Huangpu River, month by month
Highest water: from June to September
Best months to visit: from April to May and October.
From about 240 m³/s in the lowest month to 590 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
Huangpu River: the basin in numbers
26,250 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 37.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 1,463/km²people per km²
- 46maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,130mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 15.8°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 12.7%covered by lakes
- 0.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 19% Forest
- 53% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 45% 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
Huangpu River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 49Locks
- 1Waterfalls
- 31Ferry piersEast Jinling Road Ferry Pier, Shiliupu Wharf, Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal and 28 more
- 10MarinasShanghai Marina Club and 9 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Huangpu 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.
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Point Island9.2 km away
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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
Huangpu River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Yangtze RiverChina6,300 km31,900 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Suzhou Creek
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q99785) · 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 | Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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