River
Ozama River
148 km from source to mouth · Dominican Republic.
Dominican RepublicFlows into Caribbean Sea2nd longest in Dominican Republic
In numbers
Length
148km
Average flow
66m³/s
Basin
2,686km²
Drop
156m
from 156 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
148 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 156 m
- 13 kmEsperalvillo5,445 people
- 28 kmDon Juan2,396 people
- 83 kmEnsanche Luperón8,576 people
- 87 kmJuan Bosch bridge
- 87 kmVilla Consuelo28,621 people
- 87 kmVilla Francisca50,185 people
- 87 kmPuente Matías Ramón Mella
- 88 kmSan Carlos13,456 people
- 89 kmZona Colonial8,477 people
- 89 kmSanto Domingo2,201,941 people
- 89 kmCiudad Nueva18,756 people
- 89 kmCaribbean Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the Dominican Republic
At the mouth it carries 66 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 38 seconds. It drops from 156 m to 0 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,686 km², about the size of LU. 2.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to October; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Santo DomingoLargest city on its banks · 2,201,941 people
- La Isabela International Airport (JBQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 13 km from the cityCar hire at JBQ airport (La Isabela)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to MarchThe best months to visit
Ozama River, month by month
Highest water: from August to October
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from December to March.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 120 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
Ozama River: the basin in numbers
3,404 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 635/km²people per km²
- 109maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,757mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.4°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 9% Forest
- 47% Cropland
- 45% Pasture
- 10% 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
Ozama River: what you find on the way
- 1Ferry piersTerminal del Ferry Diego Colón
- 1MarinasPuerto Sans Souci
- 2River beachesPlaya de la Marina, Playa Montesinos
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ozama 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.
63mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (63)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Pico Naranjo10 km away199m
- Loma de Zambrana13 km away
- Loma de Tocoa11 km away
- Loma Tartajuana5.4 km away
- Loma de Simón14 km away
- Loma de Taita3.4 km away
- Loma de San Juan13 km away
- Loma Siete Cabezas12 km away
55 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Ozama River in pictures
HaitiWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1634730) · 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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