River
Kofarnihon River
387 km from source to mouth · Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Tajikistan and UzbekistanFlows into Amu Darya4th longest in Tajikistan
In numbers
Length
387km
Average flow
160m³/s
Basin
1,160km²
Drop
2,122m
from 2,429 m to 307 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
387 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,429 m
- 107 kmVahdat40,600 people
- 108 kmShhriston4,029 people
- 130 kmDushanbe948,251 people
- 132 kmBoshkengash23,696 people
- 135 kmVarzobtributary
- 138 kmriver Ilaktributary
- 156 kmKhanaka Rivertributary
- 291 kmBoshchorbogh4,237 people
- 299 kmZarhalol30,689 people
- 325 kmShahritus13,042 people
- 387 kmAmu Daryaat 307 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary of the Amudarya in Tajikistan
At the mouth it carries 158 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 16 seconds. It drops from 2,429 m to 307 m, 5.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,160 km², about the size of MQ. 9.4 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to April; lowest: from August to November. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (16% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- DushanbeLargest city on its banks · 948,251 people
- Dushanbe International Airport (DYU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 5 km from the cityCar hire in SamarkandDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to June and from August to OctoberThe best months to visit
Kofarnihon River, month by month
Highest water: from March to April
Lowest water: from August to November. Best months to visit: from May to June and from August to October.
From about 450 m³/s in the lowest month to 5,500 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.
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The basin
Kofarnihon River: the basin in numbers
208,245 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 9.4millionpeople live in the basin
- 45/km²people per km²
- 2,985maverage altitude of the basin
- 561mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 3.0°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 3%glaciers
- 25%permafrost
- 11km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 10% Cropland
- 34% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
- 3% Ice
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
Kofarnihon River: what you find on the way
- 1Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Kofarnihon 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kŭhi Kichkina9.6 km away2,832m
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
Kofarnihon River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amu DaryaUzbekistan2,620 km1,400 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Varzob, Khanaka River, river Ilak, Simiganj River
In the same basin
Tajikistan921 km1,000 m³/sVakhsh RiverTajikistan524 km160 m³/sZeravshanUzbekistan877 km160 m³/sBartang RiverTajikistan528 km130 m³/sKokcha River
Afghanistan360 km180 m³/sQashqadaryo RiverUzbekistan378 km25 m³/sSurxondaryoUzbekistan175 km66 m³/sGunt RiverTajikistan296 km100 m³/sPamir RiverAfghanistan118 km13 m³/sKunduz RiverAfghanistan420 km160 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Tajikistan921 km1,000 m³/s34 km awayVakhsh RiverTajikistan524 km160 m³/s34 km awayKunduz RiverAfghanistan420 km160 m³/s24 km awaySurxondaryoUzbekistan175 km66 m³/s66 km awayKokcha RiverAfghanistan360 km180 m³/s127 km awayBartang RiverTajikistan528 km130 m³/s334 km awayGunt RiverTajikistan296 km100 m³/s318 km awayKunar RiverAfghanistan480 km370 m³/s366 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2417571) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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