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Kabenna River

Coordinates: 9°40′16″N 39°44′21″E / 9.67111°N 39.73917°E / 9.67111; 39.73917
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Kabenna River
Kuba
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Location
CountryEthiopia
RegionsAmhara, Afar
Physical characteristics
SourceEthiopian Highlands
 • coordinates9°40′16″N 39°44′21″E / 9.67111°N 39.73917°E / 9.67111; 39.73917
 • elevation3,344 m (10,971 ft)
MouthAwash River
 • coordinates
9°15′27″N 40°05′31″E / 9.25750°N 40.09194°E / 9.25750; 40.09194
 • elevation
748 m (2,454 ft)
Length94 km (58 mi)[1]
Basin size1,357 km2 (524 sq mi)[1]
Discharge 
 • locationMouth[1]
 • average4.05 m3/s (143 cu ft/s)
 • minimum0.484 m3/s (17.1 cu ft/s)
 • maximum22.5 m3/s (790 cu ft/s)
Basin features
ProgressionAwash → Lake Abbe
River systemAwash Basin
Population228,000[2]

The Kabenna is a river of central Ethiopia. It is a tributary of the Awash River to its west, having its source to the southwest of Ankobar. G.W.B. Huntingford speculates that it may be the same river as the Kuba, which is mentioned in the Futuh al-habaša ("The Conquest of Abyssinia"), the narrative of Imam Ahmad Gragn's conquest of the Ethiopian Empire.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Huntingford, The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704, (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 123