River
Seman
85 km from source to mouth · Albania.
AlbaniaFlows into Adriatic Sea9th longest in Albania
In numbers
Length
85km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
6,000km²
Drop
26m
from 24 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
85 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 24 m
- 0 kmOtllak9,218 people
- 2 kmMoravë1,459 people
- 5 kmUra Vajgurore7,232 people
- 6 kmPoshnjë7,375 people
- 8 kmTapi1,780 people
- 11 kmHavaleas1,214 people
- 12 kmDevolltributary
- 12 kmOsumtributary
- 20 kmUjembledhesi i Thanes5.9 km²
- 29 kmÇlirim1,097 people
- 30 kmDrenovicë1,907 people
- 31 kmSamaticë1,249 people
- 56 kmLumi i Gjanicestributary
- 85 kmAdriatic Seaat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Albania
At the mouth it carries 103 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 24 seconds. It drops from 24 m to -2 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 6,000 km², about the size of PS. 524,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- OtllakLargest city on its banks · 9,218 people
- Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 77 km from the cityCar hire at TIA airport (Rinas)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Seman, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 21 m³/s in the lowest month to 190 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
Seman: the basin in numbers
6,123 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 524,000people live in the basin
- 86/km²people per km²
- 800maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,008mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 11.1°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 9% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 11% Pasture
- 3% 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
Seman: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Seman 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
2beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
14mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ujembledhesi i Thaneskm 185.9km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Beaches (2)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Plazhi i Semanit8.7 km away25.1°C
- Plazhi i Divjakës16 km away25.1°C
Mountains at the source (14)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mali i Gorices11 km away492m
- Malagaj9.2 km away385m
- Maja e Kules11 km away356m
- Bregu i Lisit Te Pashajt7.3 km away306m
- Kala e Krotit12 km away288m
- Bregu i Drizes10 km away194m
- Kodra e Bedenes7.0 km away138m
- Bregu i Kozares3.1 km away83m
6 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
Seman in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Lumi i Gjanices
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q81632) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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