River
Turgai River
825 km from source to mouth · Kazakhstan.
KazakhstanFlows into Shalkarteniz6th longest in Kazakhstan
In numbers
Length
825km
Average flow
9.0m³/s
Basin
157,000km²
Drop
255m
from 304 m to 49 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
825 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 304 m
- 44 kmAshchitastinskoye Vodokhranilishche0.5 km²
- 200 kmOzero Kogalykol'0.5 km²
- 213 kmZhaldamatributary
- 213 kmKaratorgaitributary
- 365 kmOzero Kiikbay0.7 km²
- 367 kmOzero Baytemir0.8 km²
- 378 kmOzero Suzhargan3.6 km²
- 386 kmOzero Shubalan4.3 km²
- 395 kmOzero Akmyrza1.0 km²
- 562 kmBaytaqköl65 km²
- 681 kmIrgiz Rivertributary
- 760 kmOzero Bakshakol'1.6 km²
- 767 kmKarakol6.5 km²
- 776 kmKurdym36 km²
- 825 kmShalkartenizat 49 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kazakhstan
At the mouth it carries 9.0 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 278 seconds. It drops from 304 m to 49 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 157,000 km², about the size of SR. 100,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from April to June; lowest: from January to March and August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- TorghayLargest city on its banks · 5,277 people
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Turgai River, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March and August. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 3.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 440 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
Turgai River: the basin in numbers
105,558 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 100,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 216maverage altitude of the basin
- 230mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.2°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 1.5%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 3% Cropland
- 83% 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
Turgai River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Turgai 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.
11lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (11)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Baytemirkm 3440.8km²
- Ozero Suzhargankm 3533.6km²
- Ozero Shubalankm 3604.3km²
- Ozero Akmyrzakm 3691.0km²
- Baytaqkölkm 52565km²
- Ozero Bakshakol'km 7101.6km²
- Karakolkm 7176.5km²
- Kurdymkm 72636km²
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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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q658832) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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