River
Tundzha
283 km from source to mouth · Turkey and Bulgaria.
Turkey and BulgariaFlows into Maritsa
In numbers
Length
283km
Average flow
180m³/s
Basin
8,429km²
Drop
422m
from 453 m to 31 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
283 km of river and 16 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBalkan Mountainsat 453 m
- 11 kmPavel Banya3,212 people
- 23 kmKoprinka Reservoir9.2 km²
- 28 kmKazanlak47,918 people
- 70 kmNikolaevo3,160 people
- 88 kmZhrebchevo Reservoir17 km²
- 157 kmMochuritsatributary
- 162 kmYambol58,997 people
- 203 kmElhovo10,424 people
- 210 kmSinapovska Rekatributary
- 274 kmKanuni Bridge
- 274 kmFatih Bridge
- 275 kmSaraçhane Bridge
- 275 kmYalnızgöz Bridge
- 275 kmEdirne180,002 people
- 276 kmGazi Mihal Bridge
- 279 kmTunca Bridge
- 283 kmMaritsaat 31 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Bulgaria and Turkey
At the mouth it carries 179 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 14 seconds. It drops from 453 m to 31 m, 1.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,429 km², about the size of PR. 2.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from August to September. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 54% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- EdirneLargest city on its banks · 180,002 people
- Alexandroupoli Democritus Airport (AXD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 104 km from the cityCar hire at AXD airport (Alexandroupolis)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tundzha, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 54 m³/s in the lowest month to 360 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
Tundzha: the basin in numbers
35,849 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 63/km²people per km²
- 524maverage altitude of the basin
- 620mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.4°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 3.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 30% Forest
- 30% Cropland
- 16% 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
Tundzha: what you find on the way
- 15Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tundzha 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
6mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Koprinka Reservoirkm 239.2km²
- Zhrebchevo Reservoirkm 9117km²
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Mountains at the source (6)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Botev Peak9.5 km away · prominence 1,567 m2,376m
- Botev vrah9.9 km away2,376m
- Triglav11 km away2,275m
- Mazalat13 km away2,197m
- Kadrafil14 km away882m
- Ravenets8.6 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
Tundzha in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
MaritsaTurkey490 km200 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Mochuritsa, Sinapovska Reka, Boadere, Gabrovnitsa, Tazha, Ada
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
GreeceWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q731777) · 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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