Atbarah River
The Atbarah River, also referred to as the Red Nile and / or Black Nile, is a river in northeast Africa. It rises in northwest Ethiopia, approximately 50 km north of Lake Tana and 30 km west of Gondar.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Africa
- Also known as: “Atbara river”, “Atsaboras”, “Black Nile”, “Ətbar”, “Ətbara”, “Ətbara çayı”, “Nahr ‘Atbarah”, “Nahr ‘Aţbarah”, “Qara Nil”, “Qırmızı Nil”, “Râul Atbara”, “Rdeči Nil”, “Red Nile”, “Rio Atbarah”, “River Atbara”, “River Goang”, “Schwarzer Nil”, “Бахр-ель-Асуад”, “Красный Нил”, “Чорный Нил”, and “عطبرة (نهر)”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Atbara.
Atbarah River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.677° or 17° 40′ 37″ north
Longitude
33.9717° or 33° 58′ 18″ east
Elevation
344 metres (1,129 feet)
Open location code
7G9MMXGC+QM
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Atbarah River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر عطبرة”
- Arabic: “نهر عطبرة”
- Asturian: “Ríu Atbarah”
- Azerbaijani: “Ətbar çayı”
- Basque: “Atbara ibaia”
- Basque: “Atbara”
- Belarusian: “Атбара”
- Bulgarian: “Атбара”
- Catalan: “Riu Atbara”
- Cebuano: “Nahr Atbara”
- Chinese: “阿特巴拉河”
- Czech: “Atbara”
- Danish: “Atbarah”
- Dutch: “Atbarah”
- Esperanto: “Atbara (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Atbara”
- Estonian: “‘Aţbarah‘ jõgi”
- Estonian: “‘Aţbarah’ jõgi”
- Finnish: “Atbara”
- French: “Atbara”
- Fulah: “Maayo Atbarah”
- German: “Atbara”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Atbarah River”
- Hausa: “Kogin Atbarah”
- Hebrew: “עטברה”
- Hungarian: “Atbara”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Atbarah”
- Irish: “Abhainn Atbarah”
- Italian: “Atbara”
- Japanese: “アトバラ川”
- Kirghiz: “Атбара”
- Korean: “아트바라강”
- Latin: “Astaboras”
- Lithuanian: “Atbara”
- Malayalam: “അത്ബരഹ് നദി”
- Malayalam: “അത്ബറ നദി”
- Mazanderani: “آتبارا”
- Mazanderani: “عطبره”
- Mingrelian: “ატბარა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ატბარა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Atbara”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Atbara”
- Persian: “رود عطبره”
- Polish: “Atbara (rzeka)”
- Polish: “Atbara”
- Portuguese: “Rio Astabora”
- Portuguese: “Rio Atbara”
- Romanian: “Atbara (râu)”
- Romanian: “Atbara”
- Russian: “Атбара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Atbara (rijeka)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Atbara”
- Slovenian: “Atbara”
- Somali: “Webiga Atbarah”
- Spanish: “Río Atbara”
- Swahili: “Atbara (mto)”
- Swahili: “Atbara”
- Swedish: “Atbara”
- Ukrainian: “Атбара”
- Urdu: “دریائے عطبرہ”
- Uzbek: “Atbara”
- Venetian: “Fiume Atbara”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Atbarah”
- Welsh: “Afon Atbarah”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے عطبرہ”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: El Linqawi and El Timeran.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Gazerat El Kaboshab and Gazerat Umm Gadik.
Ethiopia: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Addis Ababa and Axum.
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