Lake Hawassa
Lake Hawassa or Awasa, is an endorheic basin in Sidama Region of Ethiopia, located in the Main Ethiopian Rift south of Addis Ababa, the capital city of the country.
- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 1,684 metres (5,525 feet)
- Description: one of the Rift Valley Lakes of Ethiopia
- Also known as“Āwasa Hāyk’”“Awassa”“Awusā”“Hawassa”“Lake Awasa”“Lake Awassa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hawassa.
Lake Hawassa
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
7.05635° or 7° 3′ 23″ north
Longitude
38.43593° or 38° 26′ 9″ east
Open location code
6GVW3C4P+G9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Hawassa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة هواسا”
- Bhojpuri: “अवासा झील”
- Cebuano: “Lake Awasa”
- Chinese: “阿瓦薩湖”
- Chuvash: “Ауаса”
- Croatian: “Avasa”
- Croatian: “Jezero Avasa”
- Czech: “Awasa”
- Dutch: “Awasameer”
- Dutch: “Lake Awasa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره اواسا”
- Esperanto: “Lago Avasa”
- Finnish: “Awasajärvi”
- French: “lac Awasa”
- French: “Lac Awasa”
- German: “Awasasee”
- German: “Awassasee”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Hawassa”
- Indonesian: “Danau Awasa”
- Italian: “Lago Auasa”
- Japanese: “アワッサ湖”
- Lithuanian: “Avasa (ežeras)”
- Lithuanian: “Avasa”
- Oromo: “Awaas”
- Oromo: “Laga Awaash”
- Russian: “Ауаса”
- Russian: “Озеро Ауаса”
- Somali: “Harada Hawassa”
- Swedish: “Awasasjön”
- Venetian: “lago Auasa”
- Welsh: “Llyn Awasa”
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