River
Anseba River
346 km from source to mouth · Eritrea.
EritreaFlows into Barka River1st longest in Eritrea
In numbers
Length
346km
Average flow
21m³/s
Basin
12,100km²
Drop
1,922m
from 2,172 m to 250 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
346 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,172 m
- 346 kmBarka Riverat 250 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Eritrea
At the mouth it carries 21 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 120 seconds. It drops from 2,172 m to 250 m, 5.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 12,100 km², about the size of QA. 731,000 people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- WagarLargest city on its banks · 11,950 people
- Kassala Airport (KSL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 86 km from the city
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Anseba River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 3.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 89 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Anseba River: the basin in numbers
12,508 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 731,000people live in the basin
- 58/km²people per km²
- 1,200maverage altitude of the basin
- 301mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.3°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 2% Cropland
- 74% Pasture
- 2% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Anseba River: what you find on the way
- 19Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Anseba River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
16mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (16)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Guldī Terara13 km away
- Indatahasis Terara13 km away
- Kammessa10 km away
- Togagazo10 km away
- Assaraga4.4 km away
- Gul'n'ya15 km away
- Ta Kabre Aikabre13 km away
- Daro10 km away
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Anseba River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Barka River
Sudan500 km25 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q569470) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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