River
Körös River
93 km from source to mouth · Hungary.
HungaryFlows into Tisza
In numbers
Length
93km
Average flow
21m³/s
Basin
27,500km²
Drop
6m
from 81 m to 75 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
93 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 81 m
- 4 kmKörösladány5,006 people
- 15 kmCrișul Repede Rivertributary
- 25 kmGyomaendrőd15,194 people
- 55 kmBékésszentandrás4,103 people
- 62 kmÖcsöd3,730 people
- 74 kmBerkó bridge
- 77 kmKunszentmárton9,606 people
- 83 kmSzelevény1,137 people
- 93 kmTiszaat 75 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Hungary
At the mouth it carries 21 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 119 seconds. Its basin covers 27,500 km², about the size of HT. 1.8 million people live in it. Highest water: February, June and December. Its dams hold back little of its water (6.3% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- GyomaendrődLargest city on its banks · 15,194 people
- Oradea International Airport (OMR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 82 km from the cityCar hire at DEB airport (Debrecen)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water8 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe3 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Körös River, month by month
Highest water: February, June and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 63 m³/s in the lowest month to 240 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
Körös River: the basin in numbers
27,123 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.8millionpeople live in the basin
- 66/km²people per km²
- 219maverage altitude of the basin
- 607mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.1°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 19% Forest
- 49% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 2% 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
Körös River: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1Locks
- 3Canoe put-ins
- 1Boat rampsCanoe resting place
- 6Ferry piersArborétum Hajókikötő, Boglár sétahajó, Katalin II. sétahajó and 3 more
- 1Marinas
- 1River beachesKörös-torok
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Körös 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
- Mágori-domb9.2 km away
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
Körös River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Tisza
Serbia966 km800 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Hortobágy-Berettyó, Kettős-Körös
Romania
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Hungary803 km160 m³/s55 km awayZagyvaHungary179 km9.5 m³/s51 km awayCrișul Repede RiverHungary209 km19 m³/s63 km awayCrișul Alb RiverHungary236 km24 m³/s73 km awayBarcău RiverHungary134 km6.1 m³/s71 km awayDrava
Croatia720 km620 m³/s162 km awaySajóHungary229 km70 m³/s151 km awayHron
Slovakia298 km54 m³/s164 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q833573) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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