Dossier #1977 · GRanD 4490
Melka Wakena
🇪🇹Ethiopia · Wabi Shebelle River · Shebelle-Jubba Basin · near Adaba
Built 1989 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Reservoir capacity
- 750 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 40.5 km²
- Average depth
- 18.5 m
- Catchment
- 4,422 km²
- Avg discharge
- 18,172 L/s
- Elevation
- 2,323 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 130.9 %
Notes
Built 1989
Provenance
Record 1977 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via Estimated. Coordinates are river-snapped: 7.1766, 39.4294.