River
Ravi River
720 km from source to mouth · Pakistan and India.
Pakistan and IndiaFlows into Chenab River5th longest in Pakistan
In numbers
Length
720km
Average flow
230m³/s
Basin
38,336km²
Drop
2,310m
from 2,442 m to 132 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
720 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,442 m
- 101 kmChamba21,502 people
- 119 kmChamera Dam
- 146 kmAtal Setu Bridge
- 158 kmRanjit Sagar Dam
- 166 kmJugiāl15,210 people
- 174 kmMadhopur Headworks
- 431 kmHead Balloki
- 532 kmKaure Shah Zerin8,475 people
- 651 kmAbdul Hakeem51,494 people
- 669 kmSarai Sidhu15,632 people
- 720 kmChenab Riverat 132 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India and Pakistan
At the mouth it carries 231 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11 seconds. It drops from 2,442 m to 132 m, 3.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 38,336 km², about the size of GW. 31.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from April to June and December. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 54% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- Abdul HakeemLargest city on its banks · 51,494 people
- Multan International Airport (MUX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 78 km from the cityCar hire in LahoreDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From February to March and from October to DecemberThe best months to visit
Ravi River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from April to June and December. Best months to visit: from February to March and from October to December.
From about 38 m³/s in the lowest month to 750 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.
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The basin
Ravi River: the basin in numbers
38,336 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 31.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 828/km²people per km²
- 643maverage altitude of the basin
- 710mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 21.6°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 1%glaciers
- 1%permafrost
- 3.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 10% Forest
- 62% Cropland
- 14% Pasture
- 22% Towns and cities
- 1% Ice
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
Ravi River: what you find on the way
- 9Weirs
- 2Waterfalls
- 4Ferry piersRavi Siphon, Ravi Siphon North and 2 more
- 1MarinasBoat to Bara Dari
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ravi 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.
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Hanuman Tibba11 km away5,932m
- Muri Tibba6.2 km away
- Dharunipar12 km away
- Mor Jot13 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
Ravi River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Chenab RiverPakistan1,974 km1,600 m³/s
AfghanistanWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q317899) · 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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