River
Yeşilırmak River
519 km from source to mouth · Turkey.
TurkeyFlows into Black Sea7th longest in Turkey
In numbers
Length
519km
Average flow
150m³/s
Basin
36,100km²
Drop
1,136m
from 1,136 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
519 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,136 m
- 59 kmSulusaray4,037 people
- 287 kmÇekerek Rivertributary
- 302 kmİstasyon Bridge
- 303 kmAmasya114,921 people
- 365 kmTaşova19,253 people
- 387 kmKelkit Brooktributary
- 450 kmAyvacık5,731 people
- 481 kmÇarşamba50,459 people
- 486 kmCumhuriyet3,298 people
- 519 kmBlack Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Turkey
At the mouth it carries 150 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 17 seconds. It drops from 1,136 m to 0 m, 2.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 36,100 km², about the size of GW. 1.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from August to October. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 67% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- AmasyaLargest city on its banks · 114,921 people
- Amasya Merzifon Airport (MZH)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 33 km from the cityCar hire at SZF airport (Samsun)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Yeşilırmak River, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from August to October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 18 m³/s in the lowest month to 640 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
Yeşilırmak River: the basin in numbers
36,322 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 46/km²people per km²
- 1,217maverage altitude of the basin
- 496mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.3°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 3.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 19% Forest
- 33% Cropland
- 14% 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
Yeşilırmak River: what you find on the way
- 5Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Yeşilırmak 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.
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Sağırsivrisi Tepe11 km away
- Gürcü Hill8.4 km away
- Mount Köroğlu (Tokat)12 km away
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Amazon Island28 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Yeşilırmak River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Kelkit Brook, Çekerek River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
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Georgia110 km97 m³/s359 km awayPsouGeorgia53 km19 m³/s354 km awayRioniGeorgia327 km400 m³/s423 km awayÇoruhGeorgia438 km280 m³/s411 km awayKuban
Russia870 km420 m³/s446 km awayKodori RiverGeorgia84 km140 m³/s403 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1145293) · 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, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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