Baro (river)

Baro Upeno, Opeeno
The Sobat river system
Data
location	In the southwest of Ethiopia South Sudan
River system	Nile
Drain over	Sobat  → White Nile  → Nile  → Mediterranean
origin	Confluence of the Birbir and Geba rivers 8 ° 14 '29 "  N , 34 ° 57' 38"  E
Source height	553  m
confluence	with the Pibor to Sobat Coordinates: 8 ° 26 '6 "  N , 33 ° 13' 9"  E 8 ° 26 '6 "  N , 33 ° 13' 9"  E
Mouth height	404  m
Height difference	149 m
Bottom slope	0.49 ‰
length	306 km
Catchment area	41,400 km²
Discharge at the Gambela A Eo gauge : 23,500 km² Location: 230 km above the estuary	MNQ 1905-1959 MQ 1905-1959 Mq 1905-1959 MHQ 1905-1959	62 m³ / s 418 m³ / s 17.8 l / (s km²) 1130 m³ / s
Left tributaries	Gebba
Right tributaries	Birbir
Medium-sized cities	Gambela
Small towns	Itang
Navigable	in the flood season to Gambela
The Baro at Gambela

The Baro ( Amharic ባሮ ወንዝ Baro Wenz , Anuak Upeno or Opeeno ) is a 306 km long river in the Gambela region in southwest Ethiopia .

course

It is the main tributary of the Sobat , to which it joins the Pibor on the border to South Sudan . The catchment area covers around 41,400 km². Its headwaters are in the Ethiopian highlands . Its main tributaries are the Sor (tributary of the Birbir), the Gebba (also Geba), the Birbir and the Jikaw . It is navigable to Gambela during the flood season . The sobat gets about 72% of its water volume from the baro.

geography

The Baro gets most of its water from the Illubabor zone . For most of its course, it meanders through flat, wooded terrain with high amounts of precipitation at an altitude of around 400 to 500 m in a west-northwest direction. For the last 80 km or so it forms the border between South Sudan and Ethiopia. The river loses almost a quarter of its water between Gambela and the mouth in the Machar Marshes through evaporation.

Hydrometry

Average monthly flow of the Baro measured at the hydrological station in Gambela, about half of its catchment area, in m³ / s (1905–1959).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Sobat Basin and the Machar Marshes. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Retrieved January 5, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Assessment of Benthic-Macroinvertebrate structures in relation to Environmental Degradation in some Ethiopian Rivers (page 26). (PDF; 703 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 6, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ The Nile River (page 9). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 3, 2011 ; Retrieved December 24, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.