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	8.946893°N 34.601764°E / 8.946893; 34.601764
• elevation	2,048 m (6,719 ft)
Mouth	Machar Marshes
• coordinates	9°32′N 33°24′E
• elevation	410 m (1,350 ft)
Length	337 km (209 mi)
Basin size	6,630 km^2 (2,560 sq mi)
Discharge
• location	Mouth (estimate) [1]
• average	44.4 m^3/s (1,570 cu ft/s)
• minimum	5.93 m^3/s (209 cu ft/s)
• maximum	113.89 m^3/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

1. 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.
2. Topographical map of Jonglei Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
3. 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