Borkana River
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| Borkana River | |
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| Native name | |
| Location | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Regions | Amhara, Afar |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Ethiopian Highlands |
| • location | Near Dessie |
| • coordinates | 11°14′26″N 39°36′50″E / 11.24056°N 39.61389°E |
| • elevation | 2,745 m (9,006 ft) |
| Mouth | Awash River |
• coordinates | 10°41′03″N 40°27′10″E / 10.68417°N 40.45278°E |
• elevation | 556 m (1,824 ft) |
| Length | 185 km (115 mi)[1] |
| Basin size | 3,279 km2 (1,266 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Mouth[1] |
| • average | 14.35 m3/s (507 cu ft/s) |
| • minimum | 1.38 m3/s (49 cu ft/s) |
| • maximum | 80.8 m3/s (2,850 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Awash → Lake Abbe |
| River system | Awash Basin |
| Cities | Dessie, Kombolcha, Kemise |
| Population | 1,200,000[2] |
Borkana River is a river of central Ethiopia. A left tributary of the Awash. Johann Ludwig Krapf records that it was called "Tshaffa" by the local Oromo people.[3]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Lehner, Bernhard; Verdin, Kristine; Jarvis, Andy (2008-03-04). "New Global Hydrography Derived From Spaceborne Elevation Data". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 89 (10): 93–94. doi:10.1029/2008eo100001. ISSN 0096-3941.
- ^ Liu, L., Cao, X., Li, S., & Jie, N. (2023). GlobPOP: A 31-year (1990-2020) global gridded population dataset generated by cluster analysis and statistical learning (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10088105
- ^ Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842, (London, 1843), p. 83