River
Huma River
435 km from source to mouth · China.
ChinaFlows into Amur River
In numbers
Length
435km
Average flow
130m³/s
Basin
23,900km²
Drop
687m
from 845 m to 158 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
435 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 845 m
- 182 kmTahe60,874 people
- 184 kmDaxing’anling520,000 people
- 403 kmOzero Krivoye (lanaw nga porma ug arko sa Rusya, Amurskaya Oblast', lat 51,68, long 126,76)0.3 km²
- 435 kmAmur Riverat 158 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the People's Republic of China
At the mouth it carries 130 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 19 seconds. It drops from 845 m to 158 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 23,900 km², about the size of DJ. 2.8 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Daxing’anlingLargest city on its banks · 520,000 people
- Mohe Gulian Airport (OHE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 168 km from the city
- June and AugustThe best months to visit
Huma River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: June and August.
From about 360 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,400 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
Huma River: the basin in numbers
601,432 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.8millionpeople live in the basin
- 5/km²people per km²
- 855maverage altitude of the basin
- 389mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -3.2°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
- 26%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 45% Forest
- 5% 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.
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Huma River in our other atlases
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Krivoye (lanaw nga porma ug arko sa Rusya, Amurskaya Oblast', lat 51,68, long 126,76)km 4940.3km²
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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
Huma River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amur River
Russia2,824 km12,800 m³/sIn the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q48873) · 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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