River
Jubba River
1,658 km from source to mouth · Somalia and Ethiopia.
Somalia and EthiopiaFlows into Indian Ocean1st longest in Somalia
In numbers
Length
1,658km
Average flow
130m³/s
Basin
497,504km²
Drop
1,624m
from 1,624 m to 0 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
1,658 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmDawa Riverat 1,624 m
- 557 kmRamu35,644 people
- 642 kmMandera114,718 people
- 643 kmBeled Hawo73,000 people
- 683 kmDawa Rivertributary
- 688 kmGanale Dorya Rivertributary
- 804 kmLuuq33,820 people
- 1,050 kmBaardheere42,240 people
- 1,212 kmBirbiris1.6 km²
- 1,290 kmRadiile1.7 km²
- 1,320 kmBu’aale17,475 people
- 1,432 kmJilib43,694 people
- 1,479 kmShebelle Rivertributary
- 1,496 kmJamaame42,270 people
- 1,526 kmEwaso Ng'irotributary
- 1,658 kmIndian Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Somalia
At the mouth it carries 127 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 20 seconds. It drops from 1,624 m to 0 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 497,504 km², about the size of ES. 23.0 million people live in it. Highest water: from May to June; lowest: from February to March and from August to September. Its dams hold back little of its water (4.4% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ManderaLargest city on its banks · 114,718 people
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Jubba 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 June to August.
From about 180 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,100 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
Jubba River: the basin in numbers
745,374 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 23.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 31/km²people per km²
- 715maverage altitude of the basin
- 486mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.2°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
- 0.7km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 6% Cropland
- 46% Pasture
- 1% 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
Jubba River: what you find on the way
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Jubba 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Birbiriskm 1,1291.6km²
- Radiilekm 1,2011.7km²
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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
Jubba River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
KenyaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q138491) · 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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