River
Ulungur River
725 km from source to mouth · China and Mongolia.
China and MongoliaFlows into Ulungur Lake
In numbers
Length
725km
Average flow
44m³/s
Basin
35,440km²
Drop
1,997m
from 2,521 m to 524 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
725 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,521 m
- 11 kmHar Nuur2.1 km²
- 413 kmKezilexilike11,077 people
- 575 kmDure15,253 people
- 725 kmUlungur Lakeat 524 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River of China and Mongolia
At the mouth it carries 44 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 57 seconds. It drops from 2,521 m to 524 m, 2.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 35,440 km², about the size of TW. 98,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to May; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- DureLargest city on its banks · 15,253 people
- Fuyun Koktokay Airport (FYN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 81 km from the city
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ulungur River, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 0.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 15 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
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The basin
Ulungur River: the basin in numbers
29,307 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 98,000people live in the basin
- 3/km²people per km²
- 1,646maverage altitude of the basin
- 161mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 1.0°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 22%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 2% Forest
- 1% Cropland
- 66% 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
Ulungur River: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Har Nuurkm 102.1km²
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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.
KazakhstanWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1393642) · 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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