Kabenna River

Kabenna River Kuba
Location
Country	Ethiopia
Regions	Amhara, Afar
Physical characteristics
Source	Ethiopian Highlands
• coordinates	9°40′16″N 39°44′21″E
• elevation	3,344 m (10,971 ft)
Mouth	Awash River
• coordinates	9°15′27″N 40°05′31″E
• elevation	748 m (2,454 ft)
Length	94 km (58 mi)[1]
Basin size	1,357 km^2 (524 sq mi)[1]
Discharge
• location	Mouth[1]
• average	4.05 m^3/s (143 cu ft/s)
• minimum	0.484 m^3/s (17.1 cu ft/s)
• maximum	22.5 m^3/s (790 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Progression	Awash → Lake Abbe
River system	Awash Basin
Population	228,000[2]

The Kabenna is a river of central Ethiopia. It is a tributary of the Awash River to its west, having its source to the southwest of Ankobar. G.W.B. Huntingford speculates that it may be the same river as the Kuba, which is mentioned in the Futuh al-habaša ("The Conquest of Abyssinia"), the narrative of Imam Ahmad Gragn's conquest of the Ethiopian Empire.^[3]

See also

• List of rivers of Ethiopia

References

1. Lehner, Bernhard; Verdin, Kristine; Jarvis, Andy (2008-03-04). "New Global Hydrography Derived From Spaceborne Elevation Data". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 89 (10): 93–94. doi:10.1029/2008eo100001. ISSN 0096-3941.
2. Liu, L., Cao, X., Li, S., & Jie, N. (2023). GlobPOP: A 31-year (1990-2020) global gridded population dataset generated by cluster analysis and statistical learning (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10088105
3. Huntingford, The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704, (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 123