River
Ofanto
170 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Adriatic Sea
In numbers
Length
170km
Average flow
15m³/s
Basin
2,780km²
Drop
470m
from 470 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
170 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 470 m
- 0 kmLioni4,847 people
- 17 kmLago di Conza3.5 km²
- 138 kmPonte romano sull'Ofanto (Canosa di Puglia)
- 151 kmSan Ferdinando di Puglia13,734 people
- 170 kmAdriatic Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Italy
At the mouth it carries 15 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 167 seconds. It drops from 470 m to 0 m, 2.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,780 km², about the size of LU. 172,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January; lowest: from June to August. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (17% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- San Ferdinando di PugliaLargest city on its banks · 13,734 people
- Foggia Gino Lisa Airport (FOG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 47 km from the cityCar hire at BRI airport (Bari)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ofanto, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Lowest water: from June to August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 3.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 32 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
Ofanto: the basin in numbers
2,921 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 172,000people live in the basin
- 59/km²people per km²
- 430maverage altitude of the basin
- 544mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 13.8°Caverage air temperature
- 12%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 8% Forest
- 40% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 3% 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
Ofanto: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1WaterfallsCascata di Brovesao
- 1River beachesspiaggia della Fiumara
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ofanto 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
5beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lago di Conzakm 13 · 25 m deep3.5km²
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Beaches (5)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Lido Colonna23 km away26.2°C
- Matinelle Beach24 km away26.2°C
- Spiaggia Verde14 km away26.2°C
- Margherita di Savoia4.1 km away26.3°C
- Massawa6.0 km away26.2°C
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cervialto15 km away1,809m
- Monte Tuoro13 km away1,432m
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
Ofanto in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Locone
Nearby
Rivers nearby
CroatiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q841550) · 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 | Lakeyas, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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