River
Penna River
597 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Bay of Bengal
In numbers
Length
597km
Average flow
140m³/s
Basin
55,213km²
Drop
741m
from 741 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
597 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 13 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmNandi Hillsat 741 m
- 0 kmSrinlvasasagar Kere0.4 km²
- 21 kmGauribidanur37,947 people
- 51 kmHindupur151,677 people
- 283 kmTadpatri108,171 people
- 333 kmVeparāla6,712 people
- 334 kmDommaranandyāla8,337 people
- 335 kmMoragudi6,812 people
- 336 kmJammalamadugu46,069 people
- 359 kmProddatūr177,797 people
- 360 kmRameswaram19,483 people
- 361 kmModameedipalle11,397 people
- 382 kmKāmalāpuram14,677 people
- 383 kmPapagni Rivertributary
- 555 kmNellore547,621 people
- 569 kmLebur Bit ? I3,148 people
- 597 kmBay of Bengalat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River of southern India
At the mouth it carries 139 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 18 seconds. It drops from 741 m to 0 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 55,213 km², about the size of HR. 11.9 million people live in it. Highest water: from October to November; lowest: from February to May. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 50% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- NelloreLargest city on its banks · 547,621 people
- Tirupati International Airport (TIR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 103 km from the cityCar hire at MAA airport (Chennai)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to JanuaryThe best months to visit
Penna River, month by month
Highest water: from October to November
Lowest water: from February to May. Best months to visit: from November to January.
From about 14 m³/s in the lowest month to 370 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
Penna River: the basin in numbers
54,895 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 11.9millionpeople live in the basin
- 217/km²people per km²
- 417maverage altitude of the basin
- 641mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 27.2°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 2.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 14% Forest
- 50% Cropland
- 3% Pasture
- 6% 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
Penna River: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Penna 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
13mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Srinlvasasagar Kerekm 00.4km²
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Mountains at the source (13)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Halkūr Betta14 km away
- Boil Betta6.1 km away
- Nimmal Konda8.8 km away
- Karkdurga8.7 km away
- Hajdars Drop11 km away
- Durga Betta7.9 km away
- Āval Konda14 km away
- Bhimesvara Betta9.6 km away
5 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
Penna River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Papagni River, Kundu River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1877489) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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