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The greater Turkana Basin in East Africa (mainly northwestern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, smaller parts of eastern Uganda and southeastern South Sudan) determines a large endorheic basin, a drainage basin with no outflow centered around the north-southwards directed Gregory Rift system in Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The deepest point of the ...
Lake Turkana (/ t ɜːr ˈ k ɑː n ə,-ˈ k æ n-/) is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. [2] It is the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake.
The Omo River (Amharic: ኦሞ ወንዝ, romanized: Omo Wenz; also called Omo-Bottego) in southern Ethiopia is the largest Ethiopian river outside the Nile Basin.Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and it empties into Lake Turkana on the border with Kenya.
Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa. ... and by far the main feeder of the endorheic Turkana Basin with Lake Turkana. ... World Meteorological Organisation ...
View over Lake Turkana. The Rift Valley lakes are a series of lakes in the East African Rift valley that runs through eastern Africa from Ethiopia in the north to Malawi in the south, and includes the African Great Lakes in the south. These include some of the world's oldest lakes, deepest lakes, largest lakes by area, and largest lakes by volume.
It is a communal cemetery, built between 3000 BCE and 2300 BCE by the region's earliest herders as rainfall in the area decreased and Lake Turkana receded. [1] [2] [3] It is thought to be eastern Africa's largest and earliest monumental cemetery. [4] The burial site study and excavation were led by Elisabeth Hildebrand from 2009 to 2014. [1]
3.3 Lake Turkana. 3.4 Lake Abaya. 3.5 Lake Chew Bahir. ... Map of Ethiopia showing some of the main rivers. ... arranged geographically by drainage basin. There is an ...
The Chalbi Desert is located in between Mount Marsabit and Lake Turkana. [1] [2] The area is 110 km long and 10 to 20 km wide and it extends over 100,000 km 2. [3] The area is composed of an ancient lake-bed, rocky surface and lava regions. [4] The ancient lake-bed of Chalbi used to be a shallow lake around 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. [5]