The Ganale Doria River ( so, Webiga Janaale) (also transliterated as Genale Dorya) is a
perennial river
A perennial stream is a stream that has continuous flow of surface water throughout the year in at least parts of its catchment during seasons of normal rainfall, Water Supply Paper 494. as opposed to one whose flow is intermittent. In the abse ...
in southeastern
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
. Rising in the mountains east of
Aleta Wendo, the Ganale flows south and east to join with the
Dawa at the border with
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...
to become the
Jubba. The river's
tributaries
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include the
Welmel,
Weyib (also known as Gestro), Dumale, Doya, Hawas and the Hambala. The
Del Verme Falls is a notable feature of its middle course.
According to materials published by the Ethiopian
Central Statistical Agency
The Central Statistical Agency (CSA; Amharic: ማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ) is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social grow ...
, the Ganale has a total length of , of which are inside that country.
The Ethiopian
Ministry of Water Resources Ministry of water resources may refer to:
* Ministry of Water Resources (Bangladesh)
* Ministry of Water Resources (India)
* Ministry of Water Resources (Iraq)
* Minister of Water Resources (Nigeria)
* Ministry of Water Resources (Pakistan)
The ...
, describes the catchment area of the Ganale Dorya-Dawa river basin as in size, with an annual runoff of , and specific discharge of per square kilometre. The catchment area is estimated as having the potential to irrigate , and to generate 9270 gigawatt-hours per year.
The river Ganale was renamed Ganale Doria by the Italian explorer
Vittorio Bottego after the Italian biologist
Giacomo Doria
Marquis Giacomo Doria (1 November 1840 – 19 September 1913) was an Italian naturalist, botanist, herpetologist, and politician.
He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his ...
.
The Genale Doria is historically important because it served as the boundary between
Sidamo and
Bale Province
Bale (Amharic: ባሌ), also known as Bali, is the name of two former polities located in the southeastern part of modern Ethiopia.
History of Bale
Bale was a Muslim kingdom part of the Zaila confederate states under Sultanate of Showa however ...
s. The confluence of the Ganale Doria with the Dawa is notable as the starting point for the boundary between Ethiopia and
Kenya
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to the west, and the starting point for the boundary between Ethiopia and Somalia to the east.
[See, for example]
"Ethiopia – Kenya Boundary"
, U.S. State Department International Boundary Study, No. 152 – October 15, 1975 The
Battle of Genale Doria
The Battle of Ganale Doria (also known as the Battle of Genale Dorya or as the Battle of Genale Wenz) was a battle in 1936 during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. It was fought on the "southern front". The battle consisted largely of air attack ...
was fought to the south of its course.
Notes
Jubba River
Bale Mountains
Ethiopian Highlands
Geography of Oromia Region
Important Bird Areas of Ethiopia
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