River
Tuo River
655 km from source to mouth · China.
ChinaFlows into Yangtze River
In numbers
Length
655km
Average flow
460m³/s
Basin
27,500km²
Drop
1,395m
from 1,614 m to 219 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
655 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 1,614 m
- 286 kmZiyang905,729 people
- 375 kmChonglong58,441 people
- 423 kmNeijiang1,251,095 people
- 637 kmLuzhou4,254,149 people
- 655 kmYangtze Riverat 219 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the People's Republic of China
At the mouth it carries 459 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.5 seconds. It drops from 1,614 m to 219 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 27,500 km², about the size of HT. 18.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from December to March. Its dams hold back little of its water (5.2% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- LuzhouLargest city on its banks · 4,254,149 people
- Luzhou Yunlong Airport (LZO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the city
- On the water26 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From March to May and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Tuo River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from December to March. Best months to visit: from March to May and from October to November.
From about 150 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,200 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
Tuo River: the basin in numbers
27,790 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 18.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 670/km²people per km²
- 536maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,024mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 16.6°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.7km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 5% Forest
- 65% Cropland
- 2% Pasture
- 19% 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
Tuo River: what you find on the way
- 5Weirs
- 1Locks
- 17Ferry piers
- 9Marinas
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tuo 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jiuding Shan10 km away · prominence 2,808 m4,969m
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
Tuo River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Yangtze RiverChina6,300 km31,900 m³/sIn the same basin
China1,532 km2,200 m³/sHuai RiverChina1,110 km1,200 m³/sYalong RiverChina1,323 km2,000 m³/sGan RiverChina758 km1,700 m³/sJialing RiverChina1,119 km2,100 m³/sWu RiverChina1,150 km1,800 m³/sXiang RiverChina801 km6,400 m³/sMin RiverChina711 km2,300 m³/sYuan RiverChina993 km2,000 m³/sDadu RiverChina642 km1,400 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1192771) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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