Beles (river)
| Beles | ||
 The Beles in the catchment area of the Blue Nile (center) |
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| location | in the highlands of Ethiopia
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| River system | Nile | |
| Drain over | Blue Nile → Nile → Mediterranean | |
| Beginning | at the confluence of two source rivers, only a few kilometers long, about 15 km west of Lake Tana 11 ° 54 ′ 37 ″ N , 36 ° 51 ′ 6 ″ E |
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| Source height | 2100 m | |
| muzzle | in the Blue Nile about 55 km from the Sudanese border Coordinates: 10 ° 55 ′ 20 ″ N , 35 ° 11 ′ 50 ″ E 10 ° 55 ′ 20 ″ N , 35 ° 11 ′ 50 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 535 m | |
| Height difference | 1565 m | |
| Bottom slope | about 4.5 ‰ | |
| length | about 350 km | |
| Catchment area | 14,200 km² | |
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The Beles is a river in the highlands of Ethiopia .
course
It begins at the confluence of two source rivers, only a few kilometers long, about 15 km west of Lake Tana at an altitude of about 2100 m above sea level. d. M. and winds in a south-westerly direction through the mountains of Amhara and Benishangul-Gumuz until it flows into the Blue Nile about 55 km from the Sudanese border at an altitude of 535 m .
Its catchment area covers 14,200 km². Since the Tana Beles hydropower plant went into operation , the Beles has received water from Lake Tana , which is to be used in a number of irrigation projects below the power plant. For this purpose a number of weirs and the smaller dam wall were built in 1243, which according to their location at 1243 m above sea level. d. M. ( 11 ° 39 ′ 42.7 ″ N , 36 ° 41 ′ 11.8 ″ E ).
The confluence of the Beles into the Blue Nile is located around 40 km above the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam , which is currently under construction , in whose power plant the water of the Beles will also be used in the future.
Individual evidence
- ↑ measured with Google Earth
- ^ Tana & Beles Integrated Water Resources Development Project, Project Appraisal Document No: 43400-ET , World Bank