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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 ...
Lower Valley of the Awash: Afar: 1980 10; ii, iii, iv (cultural) The area of the lower Awash River is one of the most important archaeological sites in the study of human evolution. It was occupied by early hominids for millions of years and well preserved fossils have been discovered here.
The Logiya watershed is part of the Lower Awash River Basin (LARB). The upper part is in the North Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region. Lower down it is in the Afar Region. [4] The Logiya watershed lies to the west of the Awash River, and covers an area of 3,520 km 2 (1,360 sq mi). [1]
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.
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 ...
Lower Valley of the Awash: Cultural: 10: Lower Valley of the Omo: Cultural: 17: Tiya: Cultural: 12 Ghana: Asante Traditional Buildings: Cultural: 35 Holy See (F) Italy: Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura: Cultural: 91 Honduras: Maya Site of Copan (F ...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A sample taken from an El Paso Water well located in the Lower Valley tested positive for E. coli on Tuesday, Nov. 19, according to El Paso Water. The utility says that a ...
It is situated on the southern edge of the Afar Triangle (part of East Africa's Great Rift Valley), along the left banks of the Awash River, between two minor tributaries, the eponymous Kada Hadar and the Kada Gona. [2] In 1972, Taieb organized a small exploratory reconnaissance of the Afar region to investigate more paleontological finds there.