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.- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 1,790 metres (5,873 feet)
- …is also known as “Lesser Abay River”
- Description: river in Ethiopia
Gilgel Abay
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Latitude
11.8° or 11° 48′ north
Longitude
37.1167° or 37° 7′ 0″ east
Open location code
7G3VQ4X8+XM
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“Gilgel Abay” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ግልገል አባይ”
- Arabic: “جيلجيل أباي”
- 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”
- Somali: “Gilgel Abay”
- Swahili: “Mto Abay Mdogo”
- Swedish: “Gilgel Abay”
- Welsh: “Afon Lesser Abay”
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