Gilgel Abay
The Gilgel Abay, or Lesser Abay, is a river of central Ethiopia. Rising in the mountains of Gojjam, it flows northward to empty into south-western Lake Tana in a bird's-foot delta.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Lesser Abay River”
Gilgel Abay
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“Gilgel Abay” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ግልገል አባይ”
- Cebuano: “Lesser Abay River”
- Chinese: “小阿拜河”
- Croatian: “Gilgel Abay”
- Croatian: “Mali Abaj”
- Dutch: “Gilgel Abay”
- French: “Gilgel Abay”
- German: “Gilgel Abay”
- German: “Kleiner Nil”
- Hausa: “Gilgel Aba”
- Irish: “Abhainn Lesser Abay”
- Japanese: “小アバイ川”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lesser Abay”
- Portuguese: “Rio Lesser Abay”
- Swahili: “Mto Abay Mdogo”
- Swedish: “Gilgel Abay”
- Welsh: “Afon Lesser Abay”
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