Bashilo River
| Bashilo River | |
|---|---|
 Map showing the Abbay basin, with the Didessa River (Centre right) | |
| Location | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• location | into Blue Nile |
• coordinates | 11°2′26″N 38°28′31″E / 11.04056°N 38.47528°E |
The Bashilo River (less often known as the Beshitta) is located in
Debub Wollo Zones. Its tributaries include the Checheho
, and the Walano.
The Bashilo was also important for defining the boundaries of Ethiopian provinces. In the 17th century, it separated
Menelik of Shewa in a letter to G.R. Goodfellow.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" Archived 2007-06-16 at the Wayback Machine The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 22 January 2008)
- ^ "Tana & Beles Integrated Water Resources Development: Project Appraisal Document (PAD), Vol.1", World Bank, 2 May 2008 (accessed 5 May 2009)
- ^ Balthasar Tellez, The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, 1710 (LaVergue: Kessinger, 2010), p. 11
- ^ Herbert Weld Blundell, The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), pp. 292f, 340
- ^ Dated 3 July 1870. Text and translation in Sven Rubenson, Acta Aethiopica, vol 3: Internal Rivalries and Foreign Threats, 1869-1879 (Addis Ababa: University Press, 2000), pp. 60f.
External links
- Ethiopia Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency: Administrative atlas: Amhara region
- Ethiopia Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency: Flood Vulnerable Areas as of August 24, 2006
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