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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.
Awash Subah is a market town in central Ethiopia. Located in Administrative Zone 3 of the Afar Region, above a gorge on the Awash River, after which the town is named, [1] the town lies on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, which crosses the gorge by a bridge there. It is the largest settlement in Awash Fentale woreda.
The Depression overlaps the borders of Eritrea, Djibouti and the entire Afar Region of Ethiopia; and it contains the lowest point in Africa, Lake Assal, Djibouti, at 155 m (509 ft) below sea level. The Awash River is the main waterflow into the region, but it runs dry during the annual dry season, and ends as a chain of saline lakes.
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]
Melka Kunture and Balchit: Archaeological and Palaeontological Sites in the Highland Area of Ethiopia Oromiya: 2024 13rev; iii, iv, v (cultural) Melka Kunture is a large archaeological site in the highlands of the upper Awash River. The deposits, at places up to 100 m (330 ft) thick, span more than 1.7 million years.
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 Afar Region (/ ˈ ɑː f ɑːr /; Afar: Qafar Rakaakayak; Amharic: ዓፋር ክልል), formerly known as Region 2, is a regional state in northeastern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Afar people. Its capital is the planned city of Semera, which lies on the paved Awash–Assab highway.