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Map of Ethiopia showing some of the main rivers This is a list of streams and rivers in Ethiopia , arranged geographically by drainage basin. There is an alphabetic list at the end of this article.
The White Nile flows into South Sudan just south of Nimule, where it is known as the Bahr al Jabal ("Mountain River" [35]). Just south of the town is the confluence with the Achwa River . The Bahr al Ghazal , 716 kilometers (445 mi) long, joins the Bahr al Jabal at a small lagoon called Lake No , after which the Nile becomes known as the Bahr ...
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.
The drainage area of the basin covers Burundi, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, the Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. The Basin is the main supplier of fresh water, electricity, and fish for the local residents of these countries, supporting about 270 million inhabitants, or 20% of the ...
Great Fish River - South Africa; Great Kei River - South Africa; Black Kei River - South Africa; White Kei River - South Africa; Groot River(s) - South Africa. Groot River (Western Cape) Groot River (Southern Cape) Groot River (Eastern Cape) another name for the Orange River - South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia; Gamtoos River - South Africa; Ihosy ...
The chief river of Ethiopia flowing east is the Awash River (or Awasi), which rises in the Shewan uplands and makes a semicircular bend first southeast and then northeast. It reaches the Afar Depression through a broad breach in the eastern escarpment of the plateau, beyond which it is joined on its left bank by its chief affluent, the Germama ...
[The Nile river] comes from a very huge lake of the [African] lands). Map of the Nile river showing the location of Jinja in Uganda (near the Murchison Falls) Furthermore, Seneca wrote that the legionaries told him that the water of the Nile River, that jumped through two huge rocks, was coming from a large lake in Africa.
Dinder River On A Plain. The Dinder National Park of Sudan, which stretches south from the Dinder, is named after the river. This watershed was previously habitat to the endangered painted hunting dog, Lycaon pictus; however, this canine is thought to be extirpated in the region [2] due to expansion of the human population and lack of attention to conservation.