River
Toa river
131 km from source to mouth · Cuba.
Cuba2nd longest in Cuba
In numbers
Length
131km
Average flow
6.1m³/s
Basin
1,050km²
Drop
411m
from 411 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
131 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 411 m
- 72 kmMouthat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Cuba
At the mouth it carries 6.1 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 412 seconds. It drops from 411 m to 0 m, 3.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,050 km², about the size of HK. 50,000 people live in it. Highest water: from October to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BaracoaLargest city on its banks · 48,362 people
- Gustavo Rizo Airport (BCA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 2 km from the cityCar hire at CAP airport (Cap Haitien)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From February to AprilThe best months to visit
Toa river, month by month
Highest water: from October to December
Best months to visit: from February to April.
From about 1.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 16 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
Toa river: the basin in numbers
1,050 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 50,000people live in the basin
- 47/km²people per km²
- 493maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,648mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 22.7°Caverage air temperature
- 97%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 70% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 22% Pasture
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
Toa river: what you find on the way
- 1WaterfallsArroyo Neblina
- 2River beachesPlaya Toa, Playuela
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Toa 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.
23beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (23)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Playa de Miel6.8 km away29.2°C
- Playa de Toakm 7229.2°C
- Playa Pinca19 km away29.2°C
- Playa de Nibujón16 km away29.2°C
- Playa Manguana10 km away29.2°C
- Playa Bariguá22 km away29.2°C
- Playa Duaba2.6 km away29.2°C
- Playa Cajuajo18 km away29.2°C
15 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Sierra de Mateo5.7 km away
- Sierra de Magüey5.3 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.
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Haiti240 km99 m³/s223 km awayLes Trois RivièresHaiti150 km24 m³/s181 km awayCauto RiverCuba343 km120 m³/s282 km awayYaque del Norte River
Dominican Republic296 km97 m³/s304 km awayDajabón RiverDominican Republic55 km8.6 m³/s300 km awayGuayamouc RiverHaiti113 km27 m³/s320 km awayRio Cobre
Jamaica51 km14 m³/s361 km awayRio MinhoJamaica92 km5.7 m³/s409 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2180983) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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