Kibish River
| Kibish River | |
|---|---|
  Location of mouth in Ehtiopia | |
| Location | |
| Countries | Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Ethiopian Highlands |
| • location | Mount Maji |
| • coordinates | 6°8′30″N 35°35′14″E / 6.14167°N 35.58722°E |
| • elevation | 2,256 m (7,402 ft) |
| Mouth | Lake Turkana (sometimes) |
• coordinates | 4°37′42″N 35°58′25″E / 4.62833°N 35.97361°E |
• elevation | 370 m (1,210 ft) |
| Length | 260 km (162 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 12,046 km2 (4,651 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Mouth[1] |
| • average | 24.56 m3/s (867.3 cu ft/s) |
| • minimum | 12.64 m3/s (446.5 cu ft/s) |
| • maximum | 35.97 m3/s (1,270 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Kibish Basin |
| Population | 57,300[2] |
| Waterbodies | Lopoch swamp |
Kibish River is a river of southern Ethiopia, which defines part of that country's border with South Sudan and Kenya. It flows towards Lake Turkana, although some years it does not have enough volume to reach it, as C.W. Gwynn discovered in 1908.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 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
- ↑ C. W. Gwynn, "A Journey in Southern Abyssinia", Geographical Journal, 38 (August 1911), p. 125
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