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The Awash valley contains one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on the African
continent. The remains found at the site, the oldest of which ...
The Awash (sometimes spelled Hawash; Oromo: Awaash, Amharic:
አዋሽ, Afar: 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. According to Huntingford, in the 16th century the Awash river was called the great Dir river and
lay in the country of the Muslims. [1]
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