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West Omo or Mirab Omo is a Zone in the Ethiopian South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region. [1] West Omo is located at Ethiopia’s southern margin, where Maji and Surma woredas are bordering Kenya, encompassing the area to the west of the Omo River. The area is dominantly inhabited by the Dizi, Suri and Me'enit communities. [2] West Omo Zone has ...
Until the 19th century, Aari people lived under independent chiefdoms. The divine ruler of the Aari tribal societies were called baabi.. In the late 1800s, the Omo River region was conquered by the Ethiopian Empire under Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, which resulted in the widespread adoption of Amharic culture and the Amharic language there. [3]
Omo National Park is a national park in Ethiopia founded in 1980. Located in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region on the west bank of the Omo River , the park covers approximately 4,068 square kilometers, about 870 kilometers southwest of Addis Ababa ; across the Omo is the Mago National Park and the Tama Wildlife Reserve.
The Hamar people (also spelled Hamer) are a community inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia. They live in Hamer woreda (or district), a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Debub Omo Zone of the former South Ethiopia Regional State (SERS). They are largely pastoralists, so their culture places a high value on cattle.
The people who also call themselves the Hor (Hoor) live in four villages in the delta of the Limo River (also known as Dullay or Weito) at the northern end of Lake Stephanie (Bau or Chew Bahr) in South Omo Zone. The name Arbore is used by the inhabitants of two of the four villages, Gandaraba and Kulama, whereas the inhabitants of Eegude and ...
Their main homeland is in the Debub Omo Zone of the South Ethiopia Regional State, adjacent to Lake Turkana. According to the 2007 national census, they number 48,067 people (or 0.07% of the total population of Ethiopia), of whom 1,481 are urban dwellers. [1] A Daasanach man
The Omo I and Omo II hominin fossils were taken from similar stratigraphic levels above Member I. [3] [4] [5] Because of the very limited fauna and the few stone artifacts that were found at the sites when the original Omo remains were discovered, the provenance and estimated age of the Kibish hominids are uncertain. [2]
Omo River (Ethiopia), in southern Ethiopia is the largest Ethiopian river outside the Nile Basin and namesake for all the topics below; Omo Nada, one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia; South Omo Zone, a zone in the Ethiopian Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) Omo National Park, Ethiopia