Shalla
Lake Shala is an alkaline lake located in the Ethiopian Rift Valley, in the Abijatta-Shalla National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: one of the Rift Valley lakes of Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Chala Lake”, “Hora Schala Lake”, “Lago Scialla”, “Lake Shala”, “Lake Shalla”, “Lamina Lake”, “Schala Lake”, “Schale Lake”, “Scialla Lake”, “Shala Hayk‘”, “Sholā”, and “Tchalo Lake”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abijatta Shalla Lakes National Park.
Abijatta Shalla Lakes National Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Abijatta-Shalla Lakes National Park is in the southern Oromia region of Ethiopia, about 200 km south of the capital of Addis Ababa.
Shalla
- Categories: volcanic crater lake, soda lake, and body of water
- Location: Oromiya, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bhojpuri to Welsh—“Shalla” goes by many names.
- Bhojpuri: “शाला झील”
- Burmese: “ရှလကန်”
- Cebuano: “Shala Hāyk‘”
- Cebuano: “Shala Hāyk’”
- Chinese: “沙拉湖”
- Croatian: “Jezero Šala”
- Croatian: “Šala”
- Danish: “Shalasøen”
- Dutch: “Lake Shala”
- French: “lac Shala”
- French: “Lac Shala”
- Georgian: “შალა”
- German: “Shala”
- Italian: “lago Sciala”
- Italian: “Lago Sciala”
- Oromo: “Haroo Shaallaa”
- Oromo: “Shaallaa”
- Russian: “Шала”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Šala”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šala”
- Spanish: “Lago Shala”
- Swedish: “Shala Hāyk‘”
- Swedish: “Shala Hāyk’”
- Welsh: “Llyn Shala”
- “शाला झील”
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