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Afdera
Afdera ( Afar: ''Afxeera'') is one of the districts of Ethiopia, or ''woredas'', in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the saline Lake Afdera, located in the southern part of the Afar Depression. Part of the Administrative Zone 2, Afdera is bordered on the southwest by the Administrative Zone 4, on the west by Erebti and Abala, on the north by Berhale, on the northeast by Eritrea, and on the southeast by Administrative Zone 1. The largest town of this woreda is Afdera. Overview The highest peak in Afdera is Mount Mallahle (1875 meters); other mountains in this woreda include Erta Ale and Borawli. Mining is the principal industry in this woreda. The best known resource extracted is salt; according to the Afar Regional Mining and Energy Office, there are 300 active land grants around Lake Afdera, which the Office reports creates 1,800 permanent and over 40,000 part-time jobs. An all-weather road constructed in the 1990s connects this woreda to the main Awash - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afdera Volcano From Salt Mining Town
Afdera (Afar language, Afar: ''Afxeera'') is one of the districts of Ethiopia, or ''woredas'', in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the salt lake (geography), saline Lake Afdera, located in the southern part of the Afar Depression. Part of the Administrative Zone 2 (Afar), Administrative Zone 2, Afdera is bordered on the southwest by the Administrative Zone 4 (Afar), Administrative Zone 4, on the west by Erebti and Abala (Ethiopian District), Abala, on the north by Berhale (Ethiopian District), Berhale, on the northeast by Eritrea, and on the southeast by Administrative Zone 1 (Afar), Administrative Zone 1. The largest town of this woreda is Afdera, Ethiopia, Afdera. Overview The highest peak in Afdera is Mallahle, Mount Mallahle (1875 meters); other mountains in this woreda include Erta Ale and Borawli. Mining is the principal industry in this woreda. The best known resource extracted is salt; according to the Afar Regional Mining and Energy Office, there are 300 ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afar Region
The Afar Region (; aa, Qafar Rakaakayak; am, አፋር 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. The Afar Triangle, the northern part of which is the Danakil Depression, is part of the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, and is located in the north of the region. It has the lowest point in Ethiopia and one of the lowest in Africa. The southern part of the region consists of the valley of the Awash River, which empties into a string of lakes along the Ethiopian–Djibouti border. Other notable landmarks include the Awash National Park. Demographics Based on the 2017 projections by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), the Afar Regional State has a population of 1,812,002, consisting of 991,000 men and 821,002 women; urban inhabitants number 346,000 of the population, a further 1,466,000 were pastora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Afdera
Lake Afrera (in Italian Lake Giuletti) is a hypersaline lake in northern Ethiopia. Located in Kilbet Rasu, Afar Region, it is one of the lakes of the Danakil Depression. According to its entry in Lakenet, it has a surface area of , although another source states the area is .Robert Mepham, R. H. Hughes, and J. S. Hughes''A directory of African wetlands'' (Cambridge: IUCN, UNEP and WCMC, 1992), p. 168 An unconfirmed report gives its depth as ; the lake is fed by underground streams. It is also known as Lake Giulietti, the name Raimondo Franchetti gave it after the Italian explorer Giuseppe Maria Giulietti was slain by Afars southwest of the lake. Another name for this body of water is Lake Egogi (or Egogi Bad), which is the name L. M. Nesbitt's Afar guide gave it when the Italian explorer became the first European to see it in 1928. The single island in Lake Afrera, Franchetti Island (also known as "Deset"), located in the southern part of the lake, is considered the lowest-lyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallahle
Mallahle (also Mallali or Aruku) is a stratovolcano on the border of Ethiopia and Eritrea, with a 6 km wide caldera. Mallahle is the highest peak in the Afdera region of Ethiopia. It is located in the Danakil Horst at the southern end of the Danakil Alps. It makes up part of the Bidu volcanic complex (with the Nabro Volcano The Nabro Volcano is an active stratovolcano in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It is located at the south-east end of the Danakil Alps in the Danakil Depression. Before its 2011 eruption, the volcano was widely believed to be extinct. G ..., Bara Ale and Sork Ale). References Stratovolcanoes of Ethiopia Calderas of Ethiopia Calderas of Eritrea {{Ethiopia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erebti
Erebti is one of the Districts of Ethiopia, or ''woredas'' in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the Erebti River, a stream that flows east from the Ethiopian highlands into the Afar Depression, part of which lies in the eastern part of this woreda. One of the woredas in the Administrative Zone 2, Erebti is bordered on the south by the Administrative Zone 4, on the southwest by Megale, on the northwest by Abala, and on the north and east by Afdera. The major town in this woreda is Erebti; other settlements include Doxom and Lakora. The highest peak in Erebti is Ma Alalta at . A drought during June 2008 in this woreda forced 68,400 residents of 13 kebeles to relocate to the town of Erebti, although the kebeles of Haitan and Aleyta were the worst affected. Some of the displaced families have sought refuge at the farmers’ training center in Erebti while others are living in tarpaulin shelters erected nearby. Since their arrival, the villagers said, they had recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berhale (Ethiopian District)
Berahle(Baracle) is a woreda in Afar Region, Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 2, Berahle's territory includes part of the Afar Depression. This woreda is bordered on the south by Afdera and Abala, on the southwest by the Tigray Region, on the west by Koneba, on the north by Dallol, and on the northeast by Eritrea. Towns in Berahle include Berhale and Tayaraboda Overview The average elevation in this woreda is 233 meters above sea level. The major body of water in this woreda is the saline Lake Karum (also known as Lake Assela). , Berhale has 236 kilometers of all-weather gravel road; about 13% of the total population has access to drinking water. Education in the principal town of Berahle consists of eight grades. In 7 of the 9 rural kebeles, school consists of grades 1 through 4, while in the remaining two kebeles, the students are taught under a tree. , a total of 2,501 children, 445 females, are enrolled in the woreda; the number of workers who have completed Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater. The open ocean has about of solids per liter of sea water, a salinity of 3.5%. Salt is essential for life in general, and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. Salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings, and is known to uniformly improve the taste perception of food, including otherwise unpalatable food. Salting, brining, and pickling are also ancient and important methods of food preservation. Some of the earliest evidence of salt processing dates to around 6,000 BC, when people living in the area of present-day Romania boiled spring water to extract salts; a salt-works in China dates to approximately the same period. Salt was also prized by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walta Information Center
Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C. or Walta, previously called Walta Information and Public Relations Center S.C., or Walta Information Center, is an Ethiopian commercial media conglomerate owned and operated by the Ethiopian government. Walta, located in Addis Ababa, was founded in 1994 and supplies the Ethiopian News Agency and other media with local and national news. History Walta has been affiliated with the Ethiopian government since 1992 or earlier. , Walta supported the federal Ethiopian government and the Prosperity Party. Contents As part of the media conglomerate, there is an online medium in English, Amharic and Arabic with local, national and international news and a TV station, Walta TV Walta TV is an Ethiopian television network owned and operated by Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C. Walta TV is available on three satellites, originally on Eutelsat 7 West A but also on Belintersat 1 and on the Ethiosat platform. ..., broadcasting mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awash, Ethiopia
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, 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. Awash lies outside the Awash National Park, which is known for its wildlife, for the Mount Fentale caldera and for the Filwoha Hot Springs. Its market is held on Mondays, where Afar and Kereyu crafts can be founref name=NAI-we"Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute websiteArchivedat the Wayback Machine on February 28, 2008. History An iron bridge over the Awash had been built at the present location of Awash by Emperor Menelik II's favorite, Alfred Ilg, around 1890; this bridge replaced an earlier wooden one. The construction had to face the great difficulty of transporting the girders from Djibouti, but once the material had arrived, the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concealer Moth
Oecophoridae (concealer moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this. Taxonomy and systematics * Pleurotinae Toll, 1956 * Deuterogoniinae Spuler, 1910 * Unplaced ** '' Colchia'' Lvovsky, 1995 Also possibly included is the Peruvian species '' Auxotricha ochrogypsa'', described by Edward Meyrick in 1931 as the sole member of its genus. In the past, the family was circumscribed more widely and included the following subfamilies: * Amphisbatinae (sometimes in Depressariinae) * Autostichinae * Depressariinae (including Cryptolechiinae) * Hypertrophinae * Metachandinae * Oecophorinae (including Chimabachinae, Deuterogoniinae, Peleopodinae, Philobotinae) * Stathmopodinae * Stenomatinae Some treatments include only the Oecophorinae and Stathmopodinae here, placing the others elsewhere in the Gelechoidea (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asseb
Assab or Aseb (, ) is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It is situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar language, Afar, Tigrinya language, Tigrinya, and Arabic. Assab is known for its large Marketplace, market, beaches and nightlife. History Assab is about 50 km NW of the ancient city of Arsinoe (Eritrea), Arsinoe Epidires. On 15 November 1869 the port of Assab was bought by the Società di Navigazione Rubattino, Rubattino Shipping Company of Kingdom of Italy, Italy from the local Sultan. After the Italian government took over control of the port on 5 July 1882 it laid the foundations for the formation of the colony of Italian Eritrea, which became the independent country of Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borawli
Borawli is a stratovolcano with lava domes, located in Administrative Zone 2 of the Afar Region, Ethiopia. It lies above the eastern shore of Lake Afrera. See also * List of volcanoes in Ethiopia *List of stratovolcanoes A list of stratovolcanoes follows below. Africa Cameroon * Mount Cameroon Democratic Republic of Congo * Mount Nyiragongo, Goma; designated as a Decade Volcano ** It contains an active lava lake inside its crater which overflowed due t ... References * Mountains of Ethiopia Stratovolcanoes of Ethiopia Lava domes Afar Region {{Afar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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