Gumara River Explained

Gumara River
Mouth Coordinates:	11.9°N 67°W
Country:	Ethiopia
State Type:	Region
State:	Amhara
Region Type:	Zone
Region:	South Gondar
Source1:	11.6107°N 37.9779°W
Source1 Coordinates:	11.6012°N 38.0036°W
Mouth:	Lake Tana
Discharge1 Location:	Mouth (estimate) ^[1]
Progression:	Lake Tana → Blue Nile → Nile → Mediterranean Sea
River System:	Nile Basin
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 and 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 . English . 14 . 2 . 1037–1079 . 10.5194/gmd-14-1037-2021 . free . 2021GMD....14.1037M . 1991-959X. 11250/2984567 . free .
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." 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)