River
Subarnarekha River
470 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Bay of Bengal
In numbers
Length
470km
Average flow
310m³/s
Basin
18,951km²
Drop
623m
from 623 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
470 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 623 m
- 16 kmTāti12,878 people
- 23 kmIrbā5,210 people
- 47 kmHundru Falls
- 90 kmMuri12,744 people
- 185 kmKharkai Rivertributary
- 187 kmKopali43,256 people
- 189 kmJamshedpur1,339,438 people
- 192 kmMango223,805 people
- 205 kmGhorabandha20,718 people
- 227 kmJadugora18,563 people
- 242 kmGhātsīla40,624 people
- 243 kmGhagra Waterfall
- 253 kmMushābani32,761 people
- 379 kmJangalkanya Setu
- 416 kmJaleshwar25,747 people
- 470 kmBay of Bengalat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 310 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 8.1 seconds. It drops from 623 m to 0 m, 1.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 18,951 km², about the size of FJ. 9.0 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to April. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (13% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- JamshedpurLargest city on its banks · 1,339,438 people
- Birsa Munda Airport (IXR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 105 km from the cityCar hire at CCU airport (Kolkata)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Subarnarekha River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 41 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,700 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
Subarnarekha River: the basin in numbers
19,432 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 9.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 465/km²people per km²
- 273maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,326mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.9°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 2.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 25% Forest
- 51% Cropland
- 11% 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
Subarnarekha River: what you find on the way
- 16Weirs
- 1WaterfallsHundrughagh Falls
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Subarnarekha 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.
2waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
Waterfalls (2)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Hundru Fallskm 45
- Ghagra Waterfallkm 233
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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
Subarnarekha River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Kharkai River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
India592 km680 m³/s116 km awayMahanadiIndia860 km2,100 m³/s155 km awayGangesIndia2,525 km12,000 m³/s387 km awayJamuna River
Bangladesh245 km20,100 m³/s352 km awayPadma RiverBangladesh120 km32,000 m³/s387 km awayMahananda RiverIndia360 km390 m³/s336 km awayKosi RiverIndia729 km2,300 m³/s425 km awayGandaki RiverIndia630 km1,800 m³/s499 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3822918) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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