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  2. Lake Tana - Wikipedia

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    Lake Tana (Amharic: ጣና ሐይቅ, romanized: T’ana ḥāyik’i; previously transcribed Tsana [1]) is the largest lake in Ethiopia and a source of the Blue Nile. Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands , the lake is approximately 84 kilometres (52 miles) long and 66 kilometres (41 miles) wide, with a maximum ...

  3. Amhara Region - Wikipedia

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    The Amhara region is home to 6 lakes: Lake Tana, Lake Hayq, Lake Hardibo, Lake Ashenge, Lake zengena and Lake Tirba. Amhara man riding a boat on the shores of Lake Tana. The Blue Nile Falls near Bahir Dar. According to the Ethiopian government website, the Amhara Highlands receive 80% of Ethiopia’s total annual rainfall of and are the country ...

  4. Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve is a protected area located in the Amhara National Regional State approximately 563 km northwest of Addis Ababa in the north-western part of Ethiopia. The biosphere reserve comprises Lake Tana , the largest lake in Ethiopia, the main source of the Blue Nile , which provides important ecosystem services .

  5. List of lakes of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Crater Lake: Amhara Region Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ... Lake Tana: 3,060: 1,788: Freshwater lake: Amhara Region Lake Turkana ...

  6. Gish Abay - Wikipedia

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    Gish Abay is best known as the source of the Abay, or Blue Nile, also known as Felege Ghion in Ge'ez, the liturgical language of Ethiopia.In scientific logic based on river basin, the source of Abay (the blue Nile) is Lake Tana. it is basically because the water volume that inters in to lake Tana from Gilgel Abay, Picolo Abay is only one third of the water volume that leaves Lake Tana at the ...

  7. Zege Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The Zege peninsula, which is covered by a dense tropical forest and of mainly by the endemic plant of coffee, is situated to the south west edge of lake Tana some 20 km on land and 15 km on water from the town of Bahir Dar (the capital city of Amhara Regional state of Ethiopia). Monasteries with immense historical and cultural interest history ...

  8. Blue Nile - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Nile [note 1] is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.It travels for approximately 1,450 km (900 mi) through Ethiopia and Sudan.Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water to the Nile during the rainy season.

  9. Dera, Amhara (woreda) - Wikipedia

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    Dera (Amharic: ደራ) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia.Part of the Debub Gondar Zone, Dera is bordered on the south and west by the Bahir Dar, Zenzelma subcity located in Semien Gojjam zone, on the west by Lake Tana, on the north by Fogera, on the northeast by Misraq Este, and on the east by Mirab Este.