en Gumara River

Gumara River
Gumara River
	Map of Lake Tana showing the inflowing rivers
Location
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Amhara
Zone	South Gondar
Physical characteristics
Source	11°36′39″N 37°58′40″E / 11.61073°N 37.97785°E
• coordinates	11°36′04″N 38°00′13″E / 11.601240°N 38.003587°E
• elevation	2,555 m (8,383 ft)
Mouth	Lake Tana
• coordinates	11°54′N 37°30′E / 11.900°N 37.500°E
• elevation	1,786 m (5,860 ft)
Length	103 km (64 mi)
Basin size	1,600 km2 (620 sq mi)
Discharge
• location	Mouth (estimate)
• average	39.66 m3/s (1,401 cu ft/s)
• minimum	13.4 m3/s (470 cu ft/s)
• maximum	76.3 m3/s (2,690 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Progression	Lake Tana → Blue Nile → Nile → Mediterranean Sea
River system	Nile Basin
Population	463,000

The Gumara is a river of northern-western Ethiopia. It empties into Lake Tana into a bird's-foot delta from the east. Hot springs on the Gumara's banks at Wanzaye, which were popular in medicinal hot baths from the late 18th century till now, were already mentioned by missionary Henry Stern.^[2]

The river is an important spawning ground for native fish species, which include barbus, tilapia and catfish.^[3]

Notes

^ 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.
^ Stern, Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia (London, 1862), p. 82; Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Medical History of Ethiopia (Trenton: Red Sea, 1990), pp. 121-125, 128.
^ Gordon A, Sewmehon Demissie Tegegne and Melaku Tadesse, "Marketing systems for fish from Lake Tana, Ethiopia: Opportunities for improved marketing and livelihoods." Archived 2015-12-01 at the Wayback Machine IPMS (Improving Productivity and Market Success) of Ethiopian Farmers Project Working Paper 2 (2007). ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. (accessed 5 May 2009)

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[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] Stern, Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia (London, 1862), p. 82; Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Medical History of Ethiopia (Trenton: Red Sea, 1990), pp. 121-125, 128.

[3] Gordon A, Sewmehon Demissie Tegegne and Melaku Tadesse, "Marketing systems for fish from Lake Tana, Ethiopia: Opportunities for improved marketing and livelihoods." Archived 2015-12-01 at the Wayback Machine IPMS (Improving Productivity and Market Success) of Ethiopian Farmers Project Working Paper 2 (2007). ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. (accessed 5 May 2009)

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