Dallol
Dallol is a terrestrial hydrothermal system around a cinder cone volcano in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range in Ethiopia. It is known for its unearthly colors and mineral patterns, and the very acidic fluids, commonly noted as some of the most acidic on Earth, that discharge from its hydrothermal springs.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Danakil Depression and Gaet’ale Pond.
Danakil Depression
The Danakil Depression is a desert area in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, north of the Great Rift Valley that is widely known locally as the Dallol depression.
Gaet’ale Pond
Gaet'ale Pond is a small hypersaline lake located near the Dallol crater in the Danakil Depression. It is located over a hot spring of tectonic origin and has no apparent inlet or outlet streams.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dallol.
Dallol
Locality
Dallol is a locality in the Dallol woreda of northern Ethiopia. Located in Kilbet Rasu, Afar Region in the Afar Depression, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of about 130 metres below sea level.
Dallol
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of -82 metres
- Description: volcano in Ethiopia
- Categories: mountain, tourism, tourist attraction, and landform
- Location: Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
14.24247° or 14° 14′ 33″ north
Longitude
40.29969° or 40° 17′ 59″ east
Elevation
-82 metres (-269 feet)
Open location code
7H6267RX+XV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Dallol” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دلول”
- Bulgarian: “Далол”
- Catalan: “Dallol”
- Cebuano: “Dallol”
- Chinese: “达洛尔火山”
- Croatian: “Dallol”
- Czech: “Dallol”
- Dutch: “Dallol”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل دلول”
- Esperanto: “Dalolo”
- French: “Dallol”
- Galician: “Dallol”
- Georgian: “დალოლი”
- German: “Dallol”
- Indonesian: “Dallol”
- Italian: “Dallol”
- Japanese: “ダロル火山”
- Korean: “댈롤 화산”
- Ladin: “Dallol”
- Luxembourgish: “Dallol”
- Macedonian: “Далол”
- Persian: “آتشفشان دالول”
- Polish: “Dallol”
- Romanian: “Dallol”
- Russian: “Даллол”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dallol”
- Slovak: “Dallol”
- Slovenian: “Dalol (hidrotermalni sistem)”
- Slovenian: “Dalol”
- Spanish: “Dallol”
- Swedish: “Dallol”
- Ukrainian: “Даллол”
- Venetian: “Dallol”
- Wu Chinese: “达洛尔火山”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Danakhil Depression Potash Project and Dallol.
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