River
Tinto River
100 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Atlantic Ocean
In numbers
Length
100km
Average flow
14m³/s
Basin
739km²
Drop
254m
from 254 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
100 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 254 m
- 63 kmNiebla3,962 people
- 73 kmLucena del Puerto3,395 people
- 84 kmSan Juan del Puerto6,834 people
- 97 kmPalos de la Frontera11,112 people
- 100 kmAtlantic Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Spain
At the mouth it carries 14 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 177 seconds. It drops from 254 m to 0 m, 2.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 739 km². 149,000 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
- Palos de la FronteraLargest city on its banks · 11,112 people
- Seville Airport (SVQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 91 km from the cityCar hire at SVQ airport (Seville)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to July and SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tinto River, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to July and September.
From about 1.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 48 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
Tinto River: the basin in numbers
1,621 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 149,000people live in the basin
- 95/km²people per km²
- 185maverage altitude of the basin
- 535mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 17.2°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 24% Forest
- 39% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
- 4% 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
Tinto River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tinto 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.
10beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (10)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Playa Nudista Nueva Umbría22 km away22.5°C
- Playa El Rompido18 km away22.5°C
- Playa del Portil12 km away22.5°C
- Playa de Castilla9.8 km away22.8°C
- Playa de Punta Umbría7.1 km away22.8°C
- Playa San Miguel15 km away22.5°C
- Playa El Portil13 km away22.5°C
- Playa de Mazagón15 km away22.8°C
2 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Sierra de Matalaburra12 km away
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Saltes Island3.8 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Tinto River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Odiel, Corumbel
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Portugal778 km70 m³/s43 km awayGuadalquivirSpain657 km160 m³/s70 km awayGuadaleteSpain159 km20 m³/s94 km awayGenilSpain358 km40 m³/s150 km awaySado RiverPortugal180 km40 m³/s197 km awayTagus RiverPortugal1,007 km500 m³/s263 km awayGuadalhorceSpain166 km8.0 m³/s228 km awayLoukkos River
Morocco176 km50 m³/s235 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q17744) · 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 | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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