River
Pur
389 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Taz Estuary
In numbers
Length
389km
Average flow
1,000m³/s
Basin
112,000km²
Drop
46m
from -46 m to -92 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
389 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat -46 m
- 7 kmPyakupurtributary
- 7 kmAyvasedapurtributary
- 11 kmKhylmig-Yakhatributary
- 16 kmSyonzyayakhatributary
- 25 kmSolyatyakhatributary
- 65 kmYagenettatributary
- 89 kmTryb-Yakhatributary
- 120 kmYamsoveytributary
- 132 kmAymalyakhatributary
- 146 kmKorotchaevo6,998 people
- 156 kmUrengoy9,355 people
- 158 kmBolshaya Khadyryakhatributary
- 186 kmYevoyakhatributary
- 219 kmTydeottayakhatributary
- 231 kmNgarka-Khadytayakhatributary
- 255 kmMalkhoy-Yakhatributary
- 262 kmNadosale-Khadytatributary
- 277 kmSyagoykhaduttetributary
- 277 kmSyadaykhadytatributary
- 389 kmTaz Estuaryat -92 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
At the mouth it carries 1,040 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.4 seconds. It drops from -46 m to -92 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 112,000 km², about the size of HN. 85,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from June to September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- UrengoyLargest city on its banks · 9,355 people
- Novy Urengoy Airport (NUX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 84 km from the city
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- JulyThe best months to visit
Pur, month by month
Highest water: from June to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from October to April. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: July.
From about 860 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,700 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
Pur: the basin in numbers
111,252 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 85,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 55maverage altitude of the basin
- 498mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -6.3°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 4.0%covered by lakes
- 61%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 22% Forest
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
Pur: what you find on the way
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (33)
Also: Pyakupur, Vyngapur, Ayvasedapur, Ngarka-Khadytayakha, Yagenetta, Bolshaya Khadyryakha, Yevoyakha, Malkhoy-Yakha, Nadosale-Khadyta, Tryb-Yakha, Khylmig-Yakha, Tabyakha, Yamsovey, Panneyakha, Parovy-Khadutte, Aymalyakha, Yedeykharvuta, Malaya Yaryakha, Malaya Khadyryakha, Nevoyakha, Nensyayakha, Khotoyakha, Pantormaleyakha, Parnesedayakha
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q81528) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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