Ethiopia Waterfall

Ajora Falls

One of the waterfalls of Ethiopia.

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

In numbers.

4.1m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Apr–Jun
Oct

Best months

1,454m

Elevation

The water at Ajora Falls, month by month

It roars in May.

The fullest months: May. The thinnest: from December to March.

1.1 m³/sJan
0.9 m³/sFeb
2.5 m³/sMar
7.5 m³/sApr
10 m³/sMay
7.5 m³/sJun
5.6 m³/sJul
6.0 m³/sAug
6.6 m³/sSep
6.6 m³/sOct
4.7 m³/sNov
2.5 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 0.90 m³/s in the lowest month to 10 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to June and October.

Estimate: the timing comes from rain, snowmelt and evaporation (NASA POWER, 1991–2020); the amounts from the river model of HydroATLAS (WaterGAP, 1971–2000). Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Waterfalls in Wolaita, Ethiopia

Ajora Falls is a waterfall in Ethiopia.

Getting there.

Bombenearest town · 4.8 km in a straight line
Hawassa International Airport (AWA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 88 km in a straight line
From April to June and Octoberbest months to go (estimate)

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Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

Ajora Falls seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

Other falls

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The Soko through the falls

The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.

The valley below the falls

Around the falls the river drops 431 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 70 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

—viewpoints
—waymarked walking routes
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
1other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
—campsites
—hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km
—restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, up to 2 km around the falls (unless noted). A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Towns nearby

Bombe4.8 km in a straight line
Hadero7.8 km in a straight line
Āreka16 km in a straight line
Shinshicho20 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon °C	30	32	31	28	26	24	24	24	25	26	27	28
Night °C	15	16	18	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	14	13
Rain & snow (mm)	25	37	109	238	242	134	128	159	164	160	96	47
Wet days	8	10	18	26	29	27	26	27	27	25	15	9
Sun h/day	9.4	9.5	8.8	8.0	7.9	6.6	4.5	4.9	6.3	8.8	9.3	9.7

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,454 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Recent years

Wet years and dry years

Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A wet season above 100 % usually means a fuller waterfall.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	211%	171%	159%	159%	124%	142%	119%	139%	153%	61%	76%	188%
2021	448%	77%	23%	56%	91%	36%	129%	170%	108%	111%	50%	108%
2022	211%	53%	43%	94%	41%	85%	126%	68%	95%	83%	29%	91%
2023	23%	31%	281%	108%	107%	119%	109%	79%	99%	188%	413%	32%
2024	85%	674%	119%	163%	58%	125%	177%	111%	79%	169%	72%	3%
2025	5%	25%	353%	74%	62%	109%	126%	149%	162%	139%	33%	174%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q109407654) · CC0
River flow and catchment	HydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0
Climate	NASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.