River
Qashqadaryo River
378 km from source to mouth · Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan4th longest in Uzbekistan
In numbers
Length
378km
Average flow
25m³/s
Basin
8,710km²
Drop
1,748m
from 2,014 m to 266 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
378 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,014 m
- 55 kmHisorak Suv Ombori1.5 km²
- 91 kmKitob40,800 people
- 109 kmOqsuvtributary
- 121 kmTankhazy-Daryatributary
- 130 kmChiroqchi19,356 people
- 164 kmChimqo'rg'on Suv Ombori20 km²
- 243 kmQarshi Bridge
- 378 kmMouthat 266 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Uzbekistan
At the mouth it carries 25 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 100 seconds. It drops from 2,014 m to 266 m, 4.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,710 km², about the size of PR. 1.1 million people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from July to October. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 100% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- KitobLargest city on its banks · 40,800 people
- Samarkand International Airport (SKD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 65 km from the cityCar hire in SamarkandDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to May and from August to OctoberThe best months to visit
Qashqadaryo River, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from April to May and from August to October.
From about 0.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 69 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
Qashqadaryo River: the basin in numbers
12,514 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 90/km²people per km²
- 1,266maverage altitude of the basin
- 391mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 11.1°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 1%permafrost
- 0.8km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 27% Cropland
- 61% Pasture
- 4% 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
Qashqadaryo River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Qashqadaryo 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Hisorak Suv Omborikm 441.5km²
- Chimqo'rg'on Suv Omborikm 13020km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Zakhcha-Lana14 km away
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
Qashqadaryo River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Oqsuv, Tankhazy-Darya, Kara-Su, Jinnidaryo
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Afghanistan360 km180 m³/sSurxondaryoUzbekistan175 km66 m³/sKofarnihon RiverTajikistan387 km160 m³/sGunt RiverTajikistan296 km100 m³/sPamir RiverAfghanistan118 km13 m³/sNearby
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Turkmenistan978 km130 m³/s317 km awaySurxondaryoUzbekistan175 km66 m³/s311 km awayPanj RiverTajikistan921 km1,000 m³/s382 km awayVakhsh RiverTajikistan524 km160 m³/s382 km awayChirchiqUzbekistan154 km220 m³/s367 km awayKofarnihon RiverTajikistan387 km160 m³/s372 km awayAngren RiverUzbekistan236 km23 m³/s371 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1032649) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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