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Nagara River

166 km from source to mouth · Japan.

JapanJapanFlows into Ise Bay

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SourceMouthGifu
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

166km

Average flow

120m³/s

Basin

1,985km²

Drop

749m

from 745 m to -4 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

166 km of river and 24 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

745 m-4 m
Mount Dainichiat 745 m0 km
Ono Falls11 km
Nagiso4,111 people33 km
Yaotsu11,036 people91 km
Tsubo Rivertributary125 km
Gifu400,118 people132 km
Kaizu32,493 people149 km
Ise Bayat -4 m166 km
050100166 km
  1. 0 kmMount Dainichiat 745 m
  2. 3 kmKiso10,584 people
  3. 8 kmAgematsu4,131 people
  4. 11 kmOno Falls
  5. 25 kmNojiri3,439 people
  6. 33 kmNagiso4,111 people
  7. 91 kmYaotsu11,036 people
  8. 109 kmSakahogi8,071 people
  9. 116 kmInuyama73,995 people
  10. 119 kmFusō34,133 people
  11. 125 kmTsubo Rivertributary
  12. 130 kmGinan25,881 people
  13. 131 kmGifu Castle
  14. 131 kmWater Experience learning Museum
  15. 131 kmWater Museum
  16. 131 kmNagara Bridge
  17. 132 kmGifu400,118 people
  18. 132 kmKasamatsuchō22,273 people
  19. 133 kmKuroda32,586 people
  20. 145 kmSobue23,372 people
  21. 149 kmKaizu32,493 people
  22. 150 kmTokai Bridge
  23. 159 kmNagaragawa Bridge
  24. 160 kmSenbonmatsubara
  25. 165 kmYatomi43,025 people
  26. 166 kmIse Bayat -4 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River flows thorough Chubu region of Japan

At the mouth it carries 115 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 22 seconds. It drops from 745 m to -4 m, 4.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,985 km², about the size of MU. 2.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from June to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (13% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

Nagara River, month by month

Highest water: from June to September

Best months to visit: May and October.

160
2°69 mmJan
160
3°78 mmFeb
230
6°128 mmMar
330
12°171 mmApr
400
17°175 mmMay
520
21°264 mmJun
570
25°259 mmJul
540
26°203 mmAug
550
22°251 mmSep
460
16°144 mmOct
360
10°90 mmNov
210
5°67 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 160 m³/s in the lowest month to 570 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

Nagara River: the basin in numbers

9,023 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 13% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 2.3millionpeople live in the basin
  • 259/km²people per km²
  • 697maverage altitude of the basin
  • 2,047mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 10.9°Caverage air temperature
  • 26%protected areas
  • 0.2%covered by lakes
  • 1.4km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 81% Forest
  • 4% Cropland
  • 15% 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

Nagara River: what you find on the way

  • 22Dams
  • 35Weirs
  • 2Locks
  • 8WaterfallsFurou Falls and 7 more
  • 1River beaches

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Nagara 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
  • 5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
  • 1island off the mouthIslandyas

Waterfalls (1)

On the river, by Cascadyas

  1. Ono Fallskm 11

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Mountains at the source (5)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Mount Mugikusa14 km away2,733m
  2. Mount Kazakoshi11 km away1,698m
  3. Mount Mikasa13 km away
  4. Sotoba-yama8.6 km away
  5. Daiga-mine4.0 km away

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Islands off the mouth (1)

Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas

  1. Chubu Centrair International Airport27 km away6.3km²

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Nagara River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Nagara River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth13 km across

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

Nagara River in pictures

Chidori-Bashi-Gifu01
Monami · CC BY-SA 3.0
"Ubune" in Nagaragawa River and Mount Kinkazan
そらみみ · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

Tributaries (10)

Also: Arata River, Ijira River, Itadori River, Sai River, Tsubo River, Kibishima River, Sakai River, Yoshida River, Mugi River, Itonuki River

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Lake BiwaJapanJapan63 km57 m³/s61 km awayYodo RiverJapanJapan75 km210 m³/s120 km awayFuji RiverJapanJapan128 km63 m³/s174 km awayYoshino RiverJapanJapan236 km140 m³/s227 km awayTama RiverJapanJapan138 km37 m³/s280 km awayArakawa RiverJapanJapan173 km30 m³/s292 km awayShinano RiverJapanJapan367 km460 m³/s383 km awayTone RiverJapanJapan322 km260 m³/s377 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q1194094) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesCascadyas, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

The family

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