Fafen River

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Fafen River
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Map showing the Jubba and Shebelle rivers drainage basin
Location
Country Ethiopia
Region Somali, Oromia
Physical characteristics
Source Ethiopian Highlands
  locationNear Chinaksen
  coordinates 9°31′43″N42°34′28″E / 9.528706°N 42.574535°E / 9.528706; 42.574535
  elevation2,505 m (8,219 ft)
Mouth Shebelle River (sometimes)
  coordinates
5°02′45″N44°59′00″E / 5.045836°N 44.983357°E / 5.045836; 44.983357
  elevation
199 m (653 ft)
Length713 km (443 mi) [1]
Basin size45,572 km2 (17,595 sq mi) [1]
Discharge 
  locationMouth [1]
  average37.5 m3/s (1,320 cu ft/s)
  minimum0 m3/s (0 cu ft/s)
  maximum115.2 m3/s (4,070 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Progression ShebelleJubbaSomali Sea
River system Jubba Basin
Population969,000 [2]
Tributaries 
  left Jerer River

Fafen River is a river of eastern Ethiopia. Rising to the east of Harar, in Harari Region, it cuts through a series of wide, flat shelves of sedimentary rocks made of sandstone, limestone, and gypsum as it descends in a south-eastern direction towards the Shebelle River. [3] The Fafen only joins the Shebelle river during times of heavy rainfall.

See also

References

  1. 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.
  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. "531: Shebelle - Juba" Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine , Freshwater ecosystems of the world website (accessed 11 November 2009)