River
Yongding River
747 km from source to mouth · China.
ChinaFlows into Hai River
In numbers
Length
747km
Average flow
57m³/s
Basin
48,500km²
Drop
1,417m
from 1,417 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
747 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,417 m
- 148 kmXuejiaying Shuiku2.1 km²
- 238 kmCetian Shuiku47 km²
- 412 kmYang Hetributary
- 442 kmSanggan Hetributary
- 445 kmGuanting Shuiku90 km²
- 537 kmMentougou197,772 people
- 543 kmNew Shougang Bridge
- 552 kmLugou Bridge
- 710 kmTianjin13,866,009 people
- 747 kmHai Riverat 0 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 57 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 44 seconds. It drops from 1,417 m to 0 m, 1.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 48,500 km², about the size of DO. 30.1 million people live in it. Highest water: August; lowest: from December to March. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 423% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- TianjinLargest city on its banks · 13,866,009 people
- Tianjin Binhai International Airport (TSN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 15 km from the city
- On the water9 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to June and SeptemberThe best months to visit
Yongding River, month by month
Highest water: August
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Best months to visit: from May to June and September.
From about 15 m³/s in the lowest month to 190 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
Yongding River: the basin in numbers
70,425 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 30.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 428/km²people per km²
- 1,008maverage altitude of the basin
- 453mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.6°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 7.7km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 34% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 46% Pasture
- 13% 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
Yongding River: what you find on the way
- 83Weirs
- 26Waterfalls
- 3Boat ramps
- 5Ferry piers
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Yongding River in our other atlases
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3lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Xuejiaying Shuikukm 1392.1km²
- Cetian Shuikukm 22347km²
- Guanting Shuikukm 41890km²
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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.
Photos
Yongding River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Hai RiverChina102 km720 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Sanggan He, Bai River, Yang He
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1151727) · 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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