River
Khalkhyn River
233 km from source to mouth · China and Mongolia.
China and MongoliaFlows into Buir Lake
In numbers
Length
233km
Average flow
25m³/s
Basin
17,000km²
Drop
113m
from 689 m to 576 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
233 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 689 m
- 86 kmBulangiyn Shavar Nuur11 km²
- 232 kmBuir Lake598 km²
- 233 kmBuir Lakeat 576 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in China and Mongolia
At the mouth it carries 25 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 100 seconds. It drops from 689 m to 576 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 17,000 km², about the size of SZ. 2,522 people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AmgalangA town on its banks
- Manzhouli Xijiao Airport (NZH)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 160 km from the city
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Khalkhyn River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 0.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 7.9 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
Khalkhyn River: the basin in numbers
19,044 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2,522people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 773maverage altitude of the basin
- 267mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -0.4°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
- 2.6%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 1% Cropland
- 50% 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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Khalkhyn River in our other atlases
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2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Bulangiyn Shavar Nuurkm 8911km²
- Buir Lakekm 240 · 11 m deep598km²
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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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
In the same basin
Russia2,824 km12,800 m³/sSonghua RiverChina1,434 km2,500 m³/sArgun RiverChina1,620 km190 m³/sUssuriRussia897 km1,200 m³/sZeyaRussia1,242 km1,900 m³/sOnon RiverRussia1,032 km190 m³/sShilkaRussia560 km550 m³/sKherlen RiverChina1,254 km54 m³/sBureyaRussia623 km890 m³/sIngodaRussia708 km73 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q715797) · 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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