Beles River

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The Beles is a river in the highlands of Ethiopia. It begins at the confluence of two, a few kilometers long headwaters about 15 km west of Lake Tana in about 2100 meters above sea level and winds in a southwesterly direction through the mountains of Amhara and Benishangul Gumuz until it flows about 55 km before the Sudanese border in 535 m altitude in the Blue Nile.

Its catchment area covers 14,200 km ². Since the commissioning of the Tana Beles hydropower plant of Beles water from Lake Tana, which is to be used in a number of irrigation projects below the power plant receives. To this end, a series of weirs and the smaller dam built in 1243, the sea level according to their position in 1243 m was named (11 ° 39 ' 43 "N, 36 ° 41' 12" O11.66185009638936.686598046944 ).

The mouth of the Beles in the Blue Nile is located around 40 km above the under construction Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the power plant in the future also the water of the Beles will be used.