River
Rienz
80 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Eisack
In numbers
Length
80km
Average flow
60m³/s
Basin
2,143km²
Drop
647m
from 1,208 m to 561 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
80 km of river and 18 stops on the way: 16 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTre Cime di Lavaredoat 1,208 m
- 11 kmDobbiaco2,373 people
- 15 kmVillabassa1,390 people
- 22 kmMonguelfo1,450 people
- 28 kmRasun Anterselva - Rasen-Antholz2,700 people
- 29 kmValdaora di Mezzo1,668 people
- 37 kmRiscone1,602 people
- 40 kmBrunico12,282 people
- 41 kmAhrtributary
- 43 kmSan Lorenzo di Sebato1,221 people
- 55 kmTerento1,121 people
- 60 kmCascate di Vandoies
- 61 kmVandoies - Vintl3,108 people
- 64 kmRodengo1,170 people
- 66 kmRio di Pusteria1,151 people
- 69 kmNaz-Sciaves - Natz-Schabs2,430 people
- 70 kmRodengo - Rodeneck1,157 people
- 79 kmLeone-Santa Elisabetta1,041 people
- 79 kmBressanone15,868 people
- 80 kmEisackat 561 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Northern Italy
At the mouth it carries 60 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 42 seconds. It drops from 1,208 m to 561 m, 8.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,143 km², about the size of KM. 116,000 people live in it. Highest water: March and August; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BressanoneLargest city on its banks · 15,868 people
- Bolzano Airport (BZO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 38 km from the cityCar hire at BZO airport (Bolzano)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Rienz, month by month
Highest water: March and August
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 9.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 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
Rienz: the basin in numbers
2,880 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 116,000people live in the basin
- 40/km²people per km²
- 1,838maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,021mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 2.4°Caverage air temperature
- 19%protected areas
- 6%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 70% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
- 1% 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
Rienz: what you find on the way
- 176Weirs
- 11WaterfallsWasserfall Toblacher See - Cascata Lago di Dobbiaco and 10 more
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Rienz 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
86mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cascate di Vandoieskm 55
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Mountains at the source (86)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Dolomites11 km away3,343m
- Monte Cristallo9.9 km away · prominence 1,412 m3,221m
- Hohe Gaisl13 km away · prominence 1,133 m3,146m
- Dreischusterspitze4.5 km away · prominence 1,393 m3,145m
- Zwölferkofel4.9 km away · prominence 713 m3,094m
- Elferkofel6.1 km away · prominence 661 m3,092m
- Piz Popena9.4 km away · prominence 344 m3,152m
- Birkenkofel6.2 km away · prominence 391 m2,922m
78 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
Rienz in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
EisackItaly100 km78 m³/sTributaries (8)
Also: Gran Ega, Ahr, Antholzer Bach, Gsieser Bach, Pragser Bach, Pfunderer Bach, Lasanke, Valler Bach
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
GermanyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q279908) · 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 | Cascadyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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