Gumara River
| Gumara River | |
|---|---|
 Map of Lake Tana showing the inflowing rivers | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Region | Amhara |
| Zone | South Gondar |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | 11°36′39″N 37°58′40″E / 11.61073°N 37.97785°E |
| • coordinates | 11°36′04″N 38°00′13″E / 11.601240°N 38.003587°E |
| • elevation | 2,555 m (8,383 ft) |
| Mouth | Lake Tana |
• coordinates | 11°54′N 37°30′E / 11.900°N 37.500°E |
• elevation | 1,786 m (5,860 ft) |
| Length | 103 km (64 mi) |
| Basin size | 1,600 km2 (620 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Mouth (estimate) [1] |
| • average | 39.66 m3/s (1,401 cu ft/s) |
| • minimum | 13.4 m3/s (470 cu ft/s) |
| • maximum | 76.3 m3/s (2,690 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Lake Tana → Blue Nile → Nile → Mediterranean Sea |
| River system | Nile Basin |
| Population | 463,000 |
The Gumara is a river of northern-western Ethiopia. It empties into Lake Tana into a bird's-foot delta from the east. Hot springs on the Gumara's banks at Wanzaye, which were popular in medicinal hot baths from the late 18th century till now, were already mentioned by missionary Henry Stern.[2]
The river is an important spawning ground for native fish species, which include barbus, tilapia and catfish.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Müller Schmied, Hannes; Cáceres, Denise; Eisner, Stephanie; Flörke, Martina; Herbert, Claudia; Niemann, Christoph; Peiris, Thedini Asali; Popat, Eklavyya; Portmann, Felix Theodor; Reinecke, Robert; Schumacher, Maike; Shadkam, Somayeh; Telteu, Camelia-Eliza; Trautmann, Tim; Döll, Petra (2021-02-23). "The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation". Geoscientific Model Development. 14 (2): 1037–1079. Bibcode:2021GMD....14.1037M. doi:10.5194/gmd-14-1037-2021. hdl:11250/2984567. ISSN 1991-959X.
- ^ Stern, Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia (London, 1862), p. 82; Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Medical History of Ethiopia (Trenton: Red Sea, 1990), pp. 121-125, 128.
- ^ Gordon A, Sewmehon Demissie Tegegne and Melaku Tadesse, "Marketing systems for fish from Lake Tana, Ethiopia: Opportunities for improved marketing and livelihoods." Archived 2015-12-01 at the Wayback Machine IPMS (Improving Productivity and Market Success) of Ethiopian Farmers Project Working Paper 2 (2007). ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. (accessed 5 May 2009)