Borkana River

Borkana River
Native name	Tshaffa (Oromo) ቦርከና ወንዝ (Amharic)
Location
Country	Ethiopia
Regions	Amhara, Afar
Physical characteristics
Source	Ethiopian Highlands
• location	Near Dessie
• coordinates	11°14′26″N39°36′50″E / 11.24056°N 39.61389°E / 11.24056; 39.61389
• elevation	2,745 m (9,006 ft)
Mouth	Awash River
• coordinates	10°41′03″N40°27′10″E / 10.68417°N 40.45278°E / 10.68417; 40.45278
• elevation	556 m (1,824 ft)
Length	185 km (115 mi) [1]
Basin size	3,279 km2 (1,266 sq mi) [1]
Discharge
• location	Mouth [1]
• average	14.35 m3/s (507 cu ft/s)
• minimum	1.38 m3/s (49 cu ft/s)
• maximum	80.8 m3/s (2,850 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Progression	Awash → Lake Abbe
River system	Awash Basin
Cities	Dessie, Kombolcha, Kemise
Population	1,200,000 [2]

Borkana River is a river of central Ethiopia. A left tributary of the Awash. Johann Ludwig Krapf records that it was called "Tshaffa" by the local Oromo people. ^[3]

See also

• Rivers of Ethiopia

References

1. 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. Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842, (London, 1843), p. 83