Mena River

{{Short description|River in eastern Ethiopia}}{{Infobox river

| name = Mena River

| map = Jubbarivermap.png

| map_caption = The Mena River shown as a tributary of the Ganale River in Bale Zone, eastern Ethiopia

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|5.541645|N|41.183107|E|format=dms}}

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = Ethiopia

| subdivision_type2 = Regions

| subdivision_name2 = Oromia, Somali

| source1_location = Bale Mountains

| source1_elevation = {{cvt|3101|m}}

| source1_coordinates = {{Coord|6.931156|N|40.190713|E|format=dms|display=it}}

| mouth = Ganale Dorya River

| mouth_elevation = {{cvt|280|m}}

| length = {{cvt|298|km}}{{Cite journal |last=Lehner |first=Bernhard |last2=Verdin |first2=Kristine |last3=Jarvis |first3=Andy |date=2008-03-04 |title=New Global Hydrography Derived From Spaceborne Elevation Data |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008eo100001 |journal=Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union |volume=89 |issue=10 |pages=93–94 |doi=10.1029/2008eo100001 |issn=0096-3941}}

| discharge1_location = Mouth

| discharge1_min = {{cvt|6.96|m3/s}}

| discharge1_avg = {{cvt|35.1|m3/s}}

| discharge1_max = {{cvt|109.2|m3/s}}

| progression = Ganale Dorya → Jubba → Somali Sea

| river_system = Jubba Basin

| basin_size = {{cvt|9081|km2}}

| basin_population = 206,000 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

| map_alt = Map showing the Jubba and Shebelle rivers drainage basin.

}}The Mena is a river of eastern Ethiopia.{{Cite book |last=Hazel |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrXkDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Mena+River%22+Ethiopia&pg=PA43 |title=Snakes, People, and Spirits, Volume Two: Traditional Eastern Africa in its Broader Context |date=2020-05-07 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-5275-5045-2 |language=en}} It is located in the Delo Menna woreda in Bale Zone, Oromia Region. Its source lies in the Bale Mountains. It is a tributary of the Ganale Dorya.

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