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Hanger River
Hanger River (also transliterated Angar River) is a river in west central Ethiopia. It is a west-flowing tributary of the Didessa River, itself a tributary of the Blue Nile (also called the Abay River in Ethiopia). The Hanger enters the Didessa approximately halfway between the town of Nek'emte and the village of Cherari at a latitude and longitude of . Tributaries of the Hanger include the Wajja, Alata, and Ukke rivers. Father António Fernandes was the first European recorded to have seen the Hanger, crossing the river in 1613 as he sought a way south from Ethiopia to Malindi. Herbert Weld-Blundell, "Exploration in the Abai Basin, Abyssinia", ''Geographical Journal'', 27 (1906), p. 538 See also *List of Ethiopian 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. Flowing into the Mediterranean *''Nile (Egypt, Sudan)'' Atbarah River *Mareb River (or ... Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east and northeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia has a total area of . As of 2022, it is home to around 113.5 million inhabitants, making it the 13th-most populous country in the world and the 2nd-most populous in Africa after Nigeria. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African and Somali tectonic plates. Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out to the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithic period. Southwestern Ethiopia has been proposed as a possible homeland of the Afroasiatic langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater, leading the water out into an ocean. The Irtysh is a chief tributary of the Ob river and is also the longest tributary river in the world with a length of . The Madeira River is the largest tributary river by volume in the world with an average discharge of . A confluence, where two or more bodies of water meet, usually refers to the joining of tributaries. The opposite to a tributary is a distributary, a river or stream that branches off from and flows away from the main stream. PhysicalGeography.net, Michael Pidwirny & S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didessa River
The Didessa River (pronounced: ɗeɗ:e:s:a; om, Dhedheessa) is a river in western Ethiopia. A tributary of the Abay River, it rises in the mountains of Gomma, flowing in a northwestern direction to its confluence where the course of the Abay has curved to its southernmost point before turning northwards at about . The Didessa's drainage area is about 19,630 square kilometers, covering portions of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region and the West Welega Zone of the Oromia Region. Tributaries on the right bank include the Enareya, Aet, Wama, and the Angar rivers; on the left side the most important tributary is the Dobana River. Exploring this river in the mid-1890s and from interviews with local inhabitants, Alexander Bulatovich asserted that downstream of its junction with the Angar, the Didessa is rapid-free and potentially navigable. Human history The early 20th-century explorer Herbert Weld Blundell opined that "Didessa" appears to have replaced a much older name for this river, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Nile
The Blue Nile (; ) is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately 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. Course The distance of the river from its source to its confluence has been variously reported as being between and . This uncertainty might result from the fact that the river flows through a series of virtually impenetrable gorges cut in the Ethiopian Highlands to a depth of some . According to materials published by the Central Statistical Agency, the Blue Nile has a total length of , of which are inside Ethiopia. In Ethiopia The Blue Nile originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia (where it is called the Abay River). The river flows generally south before entering a canyon about long, about from Lake Tana, which is a tremendous obstacle for travel and communication between north and south Ethiop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abay River
Abay may refer to: People *Abay (name) Places * Abay District, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan * Abay District, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan **Abay (town), the province's administrative center * Abay, Almaty, Kazakhstan * Abay, Aktobe, a village in the Aktobe Province of western Kazakhstan * Abay, Taşköprü, a village in Turkey * Abay Chomen, an administrative division in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia *Gish Abay, a town in west-central Ethiopia * Alexandria Bay, a village in Upstate New York, United States, on the Saint Lawrence River affectionately referred to as Abay Other uses * Abay (Almaty Metro), a station of the Line 1 of the Almaty Metro *Abay Opera House, opera and ballet house in Kazakhstan *Abay Siti, Somali female institution dating back to early 19th century *Lesser Abay River, a river of central Ethiopia *Tikur Abay Transport, an Ethiopian football club * Abay (novel), a novel by Kazakh writer Mukhtar Auezov * Abay (film), a 1995 Kazakhstani biographic film that te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nekemte
Nekemte, also spelled as Neqemte (, Amharic: ነቀምት), is a market town and separate woreda in western Ethiopia. Located in the East Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, Nekemte has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2,088 meters. Nekemte was the capital of the former East welega, and is home to a museum of Machaa Oromo culture. It is a burial place of Onesimos Nesib, a famous Oromo who translated the Bible to Oromo Language for the first time, in collaboration with Aster Ganno. It is also the seat of an Apostolic Vicariate of the Roman Catholic Church."Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 27 January 2008) Nekemte is host city to the newly built |
Wajja River
Wajja River is a river of western Ethiopia. It is a tributary of the Hanger River, and part of the watershed of the Blue Nile. See also * List of rivers of Ethiopia 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. Flowing into the Mediterranean *''Nile (Egypt, Sudan)'' Atbarah River *Mareb River (or ... Nile basin Rivers of Ethiopia {{Ethiopia-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Fernandes (Jesuit)
António Fernandes (c. 1569 at Lisbon – 12 November 1642 at Goa) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. Life About 1602 he was sent to India, whence two years later he went to Ethiopia, where he soon won favour with Emperor Susenyos. Sent on missions for the king, Father Fernandes in 1613 was dispatched south to find a route to Malindi on the Indian Ocean. According to James Bruce, the Father first started for Gojjam with Fecur Egzie, a Catholic convert, and ten Portuguese companions. After obtaining guides for the region south of the Abay, they left Gojjam 15 April, made their way through the territory of the Gonga, through Bizamo and to Ennarea where they were warmly welcomed. After an audience with the Benero or king of Ennerea, who received them surprisingly coolly (due to the influence of an Ethiopian Orthodox monk who was opposed to the Father's journey) and sent them to Malindi by way of Bale. António Fernandes then became the first European to see the Gibe River, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malindi
Malindi is a town on Malindi Bay at the mouth of the Sabaki River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya. It is 120 kilometres northeast of Mombasa. The population of Malindi was 119,859 as of the 2019 census. It is the largest urban centre in Kilifi County. Overview Tourism is the major industry in Malindi. The city is popular among Italian tourists. Malindi is served with a domestic airport and a highway between Mombasa and Lamu. The nearby Watamu resort and Gedi Ruins (also known as Gede) are south of Malindi. The mouth of the Sabaki River lies in northern Malindi. The Watamu and Malindi Marine National Parks form a continuous protected coastal area south of Malindi. The area shows classic examples of Swahili architecture. The majority of Malindi's population is Muslim. Malindi is home to the Malindi Airport, Sai Eden Roc Hotel and Broglio Space Centre (the previous ''San Marco Equatorial Range''). History Malindi developed as part of the emerging Swahili Civili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Weld-Blundell
Herbert Joseph Weld Blundell (1852 – 5 February 1935) was an English traveller in Africa, archaeologist, philanthropist and yachtsman. He shortened his surname from Weld Blundell to Weld, in 1924. Life to 1922 He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He travelled to Persia in 1891, then for a decade 1894 to 1905 in North Africa and East Africa. He was a correspondent for the ''Morning Post'' during the Second Boer War. Expeditions included *1891-2 Persepolis, with Lorenzo Giuntini, making casts of the reliefs *1894-5 Libya and Cyrenaica, creating a photographic record *1898 Abyssinia Expedition with Lord Lovat and Reginald KoettlitzRichard Snailham" Europeans on the Blue Nile Region" Anglo-Ethiopian Society, 1992 (accessed 29 June 2009) *1904-5 Around Addis Ababa *1922 Weld Blundell Expedition, found the Weld-Blundell Prism, now in the Ashmolean Museum In 1921–1922 he presented the Weld Blundell Collection to the University of Oxford. From 1923 He backed a 1923 expedition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ethiopian 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. Flowing into the Mediterranean *''Nile (Egypt, Sudan)'' Atbarah River *Mareb River (or Gash River) (only reaches the Atbarah in times of flood) **Obel River *Tekezé River (or Takkaze or Setit) ** Zarima River **Ataba River **Wari River *** Qortem Zer'a *** Tsaliet **** Agefet ***** Ab'aro ***** Azef River ***** Amblo **** Korowya **** Ferrey River **** Kidane Mihret River **** May Meqa **** Graliwdo ** Giba River *** Tanqwa **** Tsech'i River **** May Qoqah **** Arwadito **** Adawro River *** May Selelo *** Zikuli River *** Gra Adiam River, also called Bitchoqo River *** Zeyi River *** Inda Sillasie River **** May Zegzeg ***** May Harena ***** May Sho'ate **** May Be'ati River *** Addi Keshofo River *** May Gabat *** Inda Anbesa *** Ruba Bich'i River *** Hurura **** Afedena River ***** May Ayni **** Shimbula *** Ila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
