River
Kasagh River
89 km from source to mouth · Armenia.
ArmeniaFlows into Metsamor2nd longest in Armenia
In numbers
Length
89km
Average flow
6.8m³/s
Basin
1,480km²
Drop
1,191m
from 2,028 m to 837 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
89 km of river and 39 stops on the way: 34 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmMount Aragatsat 2,028 m
- 0 kmAlagyaz439 people
- 3 kmMirak125 people
- 11 kmAparan6,400 people
- 18 kmVardenis700 people
- 20 kmDzoraglukh325 people
- 29 kmAparan Reservoir1.0 km²
- 37 kmGegharot Rivertributary
- 37 kmApnagyugh630 people
- 41 kmArtashavan589 people
- 47 kmOhanavan2,738 people
- 48 kmUshi1,767 people
- 49 kmKasakh Waterfall
- 50 kmKarbi4,851 people
- 52 kmMughni1,202 people
- 53 kmAshtarak21,600 people
- 53 kmNor Yerznka1,861 people
- 60 kmSasunik2,571 people
- 62 kmOshakan5,962 people
- 62 kmOshakan Bridge
- 63 kmVoskevaz4,701 people
- 66 kmAmberdtributary
- 67 kmAygeshat1,798 people
- 68 kmDasht1,008 people
- 69 kmDoghs1,515 people
- 70 kmShahumyan1,277 people
- 71 kmMrgastan1,139 people
- 73 kmTsiatsan1,361 people
- 74 kmTsaghkunk1,481 people
- 74 kmHovtamej1,024 people
- 76 kmVagharshapat47,989 people
- 78 kmArtimet2,098 people
- 79 kmKhoronk2,964 people
- 82 kmAratashen2,505 people
- 82 kmGriboyedov2,221 people
- 84 kmApaga2,105 people
- 85 kmLusagyugh1,078 people
- 86 kmJrarbi1,726 people
- 87 kmJrarat3,057 people
- 88 kmMetsamor1,443 people
- 89 kmMetsamorat 837 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Armenia
At the mouth it carries 6.8 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 370 seconds. It drops from 2,028 m to 837 m, 13 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,480 km², about the size of GP. 96,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from January to February and from August to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (48% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- VagharshapatLargest city on its banks · 47,989 people
- Zvartnots International Airport (EVN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 9 km from the cityCar hire at EVN airport (Yerevan)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Kasagh River, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from January to February and from August to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 0.9 m³/s in the lowest month to 26 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
Kasagh River: the basin in numbers
1,374 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 96,000people live in the basin
- 69/km²people per km²
- 2,072maverage altitude of the basin
- 518mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 4.6°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 3%permafrost
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 26% Cropland
- 22% Pasture
- 6% 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
Kasagh River: what you find on the way
- 2Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Kasagh 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
9mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Kasakh Waterfallkm 48
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Aparan Reservoirkm 281.0km²
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Mountains at the source (9)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ughtaqar8.1 km away2,861m
- Tukhmanuk5.3 km away2,761m
- Alvar12 km away2,704m
- tsilqar12 km away2,558m
- Nzhuyg14 km away2,470m
- Nigsar6.7 km away2,462m
- Andzavk7.4 km away2,219m
- Kapanu7.5 km away
1 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Kasagh River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Gegharot River, Amberd, Nigatun, Shaghvard
In the same basin
Azerbaijan1,360 km440 m³/sAras RiverAzerbaijan1,072 km280 m³/sAlazaniAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/sHrazdan RiverArmenia141 km18 m³/sAkhurian River
Turkey186 km270 m³/sIori RiverAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/sDebed
Georgia178 km30 m³/sVorotan RiverAzerbaijan178 km22 m³/sAragvi RiverGeorgia112 km33 m³/sArpa RiverAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Armenia141 km18 m³/s17 km awayAzat RiverArmenia55 km36 m³/s24 km awayAkhurian RiverTurkey186 km270 m³/s53 km awayArpa RiverAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/s88 km awayDebedGeorgia178 km30 m³/s158 km awayKhrami RiverAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/s157 km awayAghstevAzerbaijan133 km8.2 m³/s166 km awayAragvi RiverGeorgia112 km33 m³/s201 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1396186) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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