Daga River (South Sudan)
| Daga River Deqe Sonka Shet, Khor Daga | |
|---|---|
Location of mouth in South Sudan | |
| Location | |
| Country | South Sudan, Ethiopia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • coordinates | 8°56′49″N 34°36′06″E / 8.946893°N 34.601764°E |
| • elevation | 2,048 m (6,719 ft) |
| Mouth | Machar Marshes |
• coordinates | 9°32′N 33°24′E / 9.533°N 33.400°E |
• elevation | 410 m (1,350 ft) |
| Length | 337 km (209 mi) |
| Basin size | 6,630 km2 (2,560 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Mouth (estimate) [1] |
| • average | 44.4 m3/s (1,570 cu ft/s) |
| • minimum | 5.93 m3/s (209 cu ft/s) |
| • maximum | 113.89 m3/s (4,022 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Machar Marshes → Adar → White Nile → Nile → Mediterranean Sea |
| River system | Nile Basin |
| Population | 52,000 |
The Daga River (or Khor Daga) is a river in South Sudan. It rises in the mountains of the Mirab Welega Zone in Ethiopia, just east of the South Sudan-Ethiopia border, where it is known as the Deqe Sonka Shet.[2] It flows west past the town of Daga Post and discharges into the Machar Marshes.[3]
References
- ^ Müller Schmied, Hannes; Cáceres, Denise; Eisner, Stephanie; Flörke, Martina; Herbert, Claudia; Niemann, Christoph; Peiris, Thedini Asali; Popat, Eklavyya; Portmann, Felix Theodor; Reinecke, Robert; Schumacher, Maike; Shadkam, Somayeh; Telteu, Camelia-Eliza; Trautmann, Tim; Döll, Petra (2021-02-23). "The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation". Geoscientific Model Development. 14 (2): 1037–1079. Bibcode:2021GMD....14.1037M. doi:10.5194/gmd-14-1037-2021. hdl:11250/2984567. ISSN 1991-959X.
- ^ Topographical map of Jonglei Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sutcliffe, J. V.; Parls, Y. P. (1999). "The Sobat Basin and the Machar Marshes". The Hydrology of the Nile (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2011-07-22. page 112
