The Muger River (or Mujer) is a north-flowing tributary of the

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 central

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 ...

, which is notable for its deep gorge. Its confluence with the Abay is at: . Tributaries of the Muger include the Labbu. The Muger has a drainage area of about 8,188 square kilometers. The Muger is important as a landmark because it marked the eastern boundary of the kingdom of Damot (before the

Great Oromo migration The Great Oromo Expansions, also known as the Oromo migrations, were a series of expansions, outlined by a Ethiopian monk named Bahrey, in the 16th and 17th centuries by the Borona segment of the Oromo people from southern Ethiopia. Who expanded ...

forced that people across the Abay) and the western one of the district of

Selale Selale (also known as Selalesh), was a sub-province of the Ethiopian Empire located in modern day Shewa in or neighboring Grarya and associated with Bulga prior to the Oromo expansion into the region. The region was home to the important Debre L ...

. Somewhere in the Guder-Muger valleys, the first recorded dinosaur fossil in the

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...

was discovered in 1976. It was a single tooth of a

carnosaur Carnosauria is an extinct large group of predatory dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Starting from the 1990s, scientists have discovered some very large carnosaurs in the carcharodontosaurid family, such as ''Gig ...

."Local History of Ethiopia"
The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 22 April 2022)

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Rivers of Ethiopia Tributaries of the Blue Nile Ethiopian Highlands Geography of Oromia Region {{Ethiopia-river-stub

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