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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dallol.
Dallol
Volcano
Dallol is a unique, terrestrial hydrothermal system around a cinder cone volcano in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range in Ethiopia.
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.
Danakil Depression
- Type: Rock with an elevation of -102 metres
- Description: geological depression, northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression in Ethiopia
- Categories: depression, endorheic basin, and landform
- Location: Afar Region, Northern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
14.242° or 14° 14′ 31″ northLongitude
40.2991° or 40° 17′ 57″ eastElevation
-102 metres (-335 feet)Open location code
7H6267RX+QJOpenStreetMap ID
way 555022472OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=volcanic relicOpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rockGeoNames ID
416461Wikidata ID
Q14213070
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Danakil Depression” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Դանակիլ իջվածք”
- Catalan: “Depressió de Danakil”
- Cebuano: “Danakil Depression”
- Chinese: “达纳基勒洼地”
- Chinese: “达纳基勒窪地”
- Chinese: “達納基勒窪地”
- Croatian: “Danakilska depresija”
- Czech: “Danakilská proláklina”
- Dutch: “Danakildepressie”
- Finnish: “Danakilin syvänkö”
- French: “Dancalie”
- French: “dépression Danakil”
- French: “Dépression de Danakil”
- French: “Dépression de Dancalie”
- Galician: “Depresión de Danakil”
- German: “Danakil-Depression”
- German: “Danakil-Senke”
- German: “Danakilsenke”
- Greek: “Βύθισμα Ντανακίλ”
- Hebrew: “שקע דנקיל”
- Hindi: “दनाकिल डिप्रेसन”
- Hungarian: “Danakil-mélyföld”
- Italian: “Dancalia”
- Japanese: “ダナキル低地”
- Javanese: “Ledhokan Danakil”
- Lithuanian: “Danakilių įduba”
- Lithuanian: “Danakilių Somalis”
- Macedonian: “Данакил”
- Macedonian: “Данакилска Котлина”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danakil-depresjonen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danakil-senkinga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danakildepresjonen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danakilsenkinga”
- Polish: “depresja Danakilska”
- Polish: “Kotlina Danakilska”
- Portuguese: “Depressão de Danakil”
- Romanian: “Depresiunea Danakil”
- Russian: “Данакиль”
- Russian: “Данакильская котловина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Danakilska depresija”
- Slovak: “Danakilská preliačina”
- Slovenian: “Danakilska depresija”
- Spanish: “Depresión de Danakil”
- Swedish: “Danakil-depressionen”
- Swedish: “Danakildepressionen”
- Swedish: “Danakilsänkan”
- Swedish: “Denakil-depressionen”
- Swedish: “Denakildepressionen”
- Thai: “แอ่งดานาคิล”
- Turkish: “Danakil Çöküntüsü”
- Turkish: “Danakil Depresyonu”
- Ukrainian: “Данакіль”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Danakil Depression”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.