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Lower Valley of the Awash: Afar: 1980 10; ii, iii, iv (cultural) The area of the lower Awash River is one of the most important archaeological sites in the study of human evolution. It was occupied by early hominids for millions of years and well preserved fossils have been discovered here.
The Awash River, forded by camel caravan, a nineteenth century engraving (in 1852) The valley of the Awash from about 9° N downstream is the traditional home of the Afar people and Issa people. [24] The valley of the Awash have been included as part of the Fatagar, Ifat, and Shewa. [25] The Awash International Bank is named after the Awash ...
Awash National Park is a national park in Ethiopia. Located at the border of Oromia state and Afar state, the park covers an area of 827 square kilometers, most of it lies at an altitude of 900 meters.
Melka Kunture (Amharic: መልካ ቁንጥሬ) is a Paleolithic site in the upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia. It is located 50 kilometers south of Addis Ababa by road, across the Awash River from the village of Melka Awash. Three waterfalls lie downstream of the bridge across the Awash here, which provides access south to Butajira. [1]
The Middle Awash is a paleoanthropological research area [1] in the northwest corner of Gabi Rasu in the Afar Region along the Awash River in Ethiopia's Afar Depression.It is a unique natural laboratory for the study of human origins and evolution and a number of fossils of the earliest hominins, particularly of the Australopithecines, as well as some of the oldest known Olduwan stone ...
The Logiya watershed is part of the Lower Awash River Basin (LARB). The upper part is in the North Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region. Lower down it is in the Afar Region. [4] The Logiya watershed lies to the west of the Awash River, and covers an area of 3,520 km 2 (1,360 sq mi). [1]
Nannawa Adama (Oromo: Naannawa Adaamaa; Amharic: አዳማ ዙሪያ) is a woreda in Oromia Region, Ethiopia.Part of the East Shewa Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Adama Zuria is bordered on the south by the Arsi Zone, on the southwest by Koka Reservoir which separates it from Dugda Bora, on the west by Lome, on the north by the Amhara Region, and on the east by Boset; the Awash River ...
It is situated on the southern edge of the Afar Triangle (part of East Africa's Great Rift Valley), along the left banks of the Awash River, between two minor tributaries, the eponymous Kada Hadar and the Kada Gona. [2] In 1972, Taieb organized a small exploratory reconnaissance of the Afar region to investigate more paleontological finds there.