Subin River

The Subin River is an urban river in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It forms part of the drainage network of the Kumasi Metropolitan Area and flows through the commercial centre of the city. A disaster-risk profile prepared for UNDP Ghana describes the river as rising from a spring north of Kumasi, flowing southwards through central Kumasi and suburbs such as Asafo, passing towards the Kaase industrial area, and joining the Daban stream at Sokoban. The river is one of the main drainage systems of Kumasi. The UNDP Ghana risk profile identifies four main drainage basins in the city: the Subin, Aboabo, Sisan and Wiwi basins. The Subin basin covers about 230 km2 (89 sq mi), and the river has a reported mean flow rate of 0.243 m3/s (8.6 cu ft/s). The Subin River has been studied because of its exposure to urbanisation, industrial activity, commercial development, sewage, solid waste, heavy metals and microbial pollution. Research on the river has examined land-use pressure along its buffer, health-related microbiology, sediment contamination and physicochemical water quality.

Flows through: Ghana.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.