River
Seyhan River
560 km from source to mouth · Turkey.
TurkeyFlows into Mediterranean Sea5th longest in Turkey
In numbers
Length
560km
Average flow
130m³/s
Basin
20,600km²
Drop
1,567m
from 1,566 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
560 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTurkeyat 1,566 m
- 14 kmSarız3,990 people
- 77 kmTufanbeyli5,158 people
- 94 kmYeşilova15,242 people
- 186 kmFeke Castle
- 195 kmFeke4,592 people
- 269 kmGöksu Brooktributary
- 269 kmZamantı Rivertributary
- 418 kmKarslı5,172 people
- 425 kmSeyhan Reservoir37 km²
- 425 kmSeyhan Dam
- 426 kmDevlet Bahçeli Bridge
- 429 kmSeyhan Viaduct
- 432 kmDemirköprü
- 436 kmTaşköprü
- 436 kmAdana1,816,750 people
- 445 kmHıdırlı4,718 people
- 448 kmHavutlu4,639 people
- 560 kmMediterranean Seaat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Turkey
At the mouth it carries 127 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 20 seconds. It drops from 1,566 m to -1 m, 2.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,600 km², about the size of IL. 1.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from July to October. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 83% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- AdanaLargest city on its banks · 1,816,750 people
- Çukurova International Airport (COV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 25 km from the cityCar hire at HTY airport (Antakya)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to OctoberThe best months to visit
Seyhan River, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from June to October.
From about 16 m³/s in the lowest month to 430 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
Seyhan River: the basin in numbers
20,750 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 72/km²people per km²
- 1,388maverage altitude of the basin
- 555mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.6°Caverage air temperature
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 3.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 11% Forest
- 26% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 2% 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
Seyhan River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 2Locks
- 4River beachesMerkez Sahil, Yüreğir Merkez Sahil, Atatürk Sahil and 1 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Seyhan 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Seyhan Reservoirkm 28637km²
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Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Soğanlı Dağı13 km away
- Karlık Tepe6.5 km away
- Akinek Dağı14 km away
- Henüz Dağı6.0 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
Seyhan River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Zamantı River, Göksu Brook
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Turkey474 km230 m³/s60 km awayOrontes RiverTurkey571 km30 m³/s121 km awayRiver GöksuTurkey260 km92 m³/s90 km awayAfrin RiverTurkey131 km61 m³/s127 km awayPedieos
Cyprus100 km15 m³/s195 km awayGialiasCyprus88 km2.6 m³/s195 km awayManavgat RiverTurkey93 km150 m³/s308 km awayKöprüçay RiverTurkey183 km36 m³/s333 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q910975) · 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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