River
Ganale Dorya River
858 km from source to mouth · Ethiopia.
EthiopiaFlows into Jubba River2nd longest in Ethiopia
In numbers
Length
858km
Average flow
12m³/s
Basin
171,050km²
Drop
2,352m
from 2,527 m to 175 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
858 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,527 m
- 489 kmWelmel Rivertributary
- 549 kmMena Rivertributary
- 796 kmWeyib Rivertributary
- 858 kmJubba Riverat 175 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ethiopia
At the mouth it carries 12 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 208 seconds. It drops from 2,527 m to 175 m, 2.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 171,050 km², about the size of UY. 6.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from May to June; lowest: from February to March and from August to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Beled HawoLargest city on its banks · 73,000 people
- From December to January and from June to AugustThe best months to visit
Ganale Dorya River, month by month
Highest water: from May to June
Lowest water: from February to March and from August to September. Best months to visit: from December to January and from June to August.
From about 96 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,000 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
Ganale Dorya River: the basin in numbers
142,946 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 6.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 44/km²people per km²
- 1,146maverage altitude of the basin
- 586mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 22.7°Caverage air temperature
- 19%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 29% 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
Ganale Dorya River: what you find on the way
- 2WaterfallsLogita Waterfall (Lodgi)
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ganale Dorya 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.
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ussota6.0 km away
- Aranna15 km away
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
It flows into
Jubba River
Somalia1,658 km130 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Weyib River, Mena River, Welmel River
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1493334) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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