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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 ...
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.
Blue Nile Falls. The Blue Nile Falls is a waterfall on the Blue Nile river in West Gojjam, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.It is known as Tis Abay in Amharic, meaning 'great smoke'.It is situated on the upper course of the river, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) downstream from the town of Bahir Dar and Lake Tana.
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 .
Lake Tana, in the Amhara Region, is the source of the Blue Nile—at Bahir Dar. When the Blue Nile's flow is at maximum volume (during the rainy season from June to September), it supplies about two-thirds of the water of the Nile proper.
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 ...
The Zege Peninsula is a peninsula located on the southern shore of Lake Tana in Ethiopia, [1] the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile river, and is situated at (11° 40’ to 11° 43’ N and 37 °19’ to 37 °21’ E). It is 600 km northwest of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia.
The source is located 15 km west of Lake Tana at an elevation of 2,100 metres (6,900 ft) above sea level. The mouth of the river Beles in the Blue Nile is located about 40 km upstream of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam that is under construction, and the water of the Beles will be used in the future.