The Awash (sometimes spelled Awaash; Oromo: Awaash OR Hawaas, Amharic: ዐዋሽ, Afar: Hawaash We'ayot, Somali: Webiga Dir) is a major river of Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia and empties into a chain of interconnected lakes that begin with Lake Gargori and end with Lake Abbe (or Abhe Bad) on the border with Djibouti, some 100 kilometres (60 or 70 miles) from the head of the Gulf of Tadjoura. It is the principal stream of an endorheic drainage basin covering parts of the Amhara, Oromia and Somali Regions, as well as the southern half of the Afar Region.
The Awash Valley (and especially the Middle Awash) is internationally famous for its high density of hominin fossils, offering unparalleled insight into the early evolution of humans.[1] "Lucy", one of the most famous early hominin fossils, was discovered in the lower Awash Valley.[1] For its paleontological and anthropological importance, the lower valley of the Awash was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1980.[1]
^ abc"Lower Valley of the Awash". UNESCO World Heritage Site. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
The Awash (sometimes spelled Awaash; Oromo: Awaash OR Hawaas, Amharic: ዐዋሽ, Afar: Hawaash We'ayot, Somali: Webiga Dir) is a major river of Ethiopia. Its...
Look up awash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Awash may refer to: Awash, Ethiopia, a town in Ethiopia AwashRiver, a river in Ethiopia Awash National...
Africa, Lake Assal, Djibouti, at 155 m (509 ft) below sea level. The AwashRiver is the main waterflow into the region, but it runs dry during the annual...
the local population. Along with its southern boundary along the AwashRiver, Awash National Park covers 850 square kilometers of acacia woodland and...
shareholders and paid-up capital of 24.2 million birr. It is named after AwashRiver. In 2013/14 fiscal year, the bank gained roughly more than 1.37 billion...
AwashRiver. The Afar country was originally known in Ethiopian records as "Adal", a word that was used to denote the area of the lower AwashRiver to...
years. The earliest archaeological evidence of excarnation is from the AwashRiver Valley in Ethiopia, 160,000 years ago. Examples of excarnation include...
found at several sites at Gona, Ethiopia, on sediments of the paleo-AwashRiver, which serve to date them. All the tools come from the Busidama Formation...
valley of the AwashRiver, which empties into a string of lakes along the Djibouti – Ethiopia border. Other notable landmarks include the Awash National Park...
the AwashRiver and Dire Dawa The Gabra people, who live in north Kenya along the Moyale border region The Sherifa, who live between the AwashRiver, Dire...
southwest of Addis Ababa, bordering the AwashRiver in the north, the Gibe River, a tributary of the Omo River, to the southwest, and Hora-Dambal in the...
express train derailed on a curved bridge over the gorge of the AwashRiver in Awash, Ethiopia. The official death toll was 428, with more than 500 injuries...
low land portion east of the Ethiopian Empire. Including north of the AwashRiver towards Lake Abbe as well as the territory between Shewa and Zeila on...
The Middle Awash is a paleoanthropological research area in the northwest corner of Gabi Rasu in the Afar Region along the AwashRiver in Ethiopia's Afar...
Hawadi River is a river of Ethiopia. It is a tributary of the AwashRiver, which it joins at 9°51′N 40°15′E / 9.850°N 40.250°E / 9.850; 40.250. v t...
towards the AwashRiver, entering the city at 9°35′N 41°52′E / 9.583°N 41.867°E / 9.583; 41.867. It is unclear if either its flow or river bed eventually...
one of five settlements in Nannawa Adama. Sodere lies alongside the AwashRiver and features lush, shady vegetation. Vervet monkeys and Warthogs live...
wall, through which the AwashRiver flows eastward. The main range at this point trends southwest, while south of the Awash Valley, which is some 1,000 m...
1976 by members of an expedition led by Jon Kalb at Bodo D'ar in the AwashRiver valley of Ethiopia. Although the skull is most similar to those of Kabwe...
The Ataye is a river in central Ethiopia. It is a tributary of the AwashRiver. Mapping and Geography Institute (1967). "Rainfall in Ehtiopia". Ethiopian...
includes the Omo River of Ethiopia. Lake Chilwa, in Malawi. Afar Depression, in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, which contains the AwashRiver Some Rift Valley...
coast, 15 days by 20 days "normal traveling time". The state had a river (AwashRiver), was well peopled and had an army of 20,000 soldiers and 15,000 horsemen...
Harla country. Its territory extended possibly to some areas west of the AwashRiver. The port of Zeila may have influenced the kingdom. The rise of the Makhzumi...
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