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Melka Awash

Melka Awash is a town in . It is also known as Melka Kunture, the name of the world heritage listed archaeological site surrounding the town.
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  • Type: archaeological site
  • Description: paleolithic site in the upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Melka Kunture”

Melka Awash

Latitude
8.708° or 8° 42′ 29″ north
Longitude
38.6115° or 38° 36′ 41″ east
Open location code
6GWWPJ56+5J
Wiki­data ID
Q3063392
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Melka Awash” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Melka Kunture”
  • Chinese: “梅爾卡-康恰爾考古遺址”
  • Chinese: “梅爾卡·昆圖爾”
  • Croatian: “Melka Kunture”
  • Dutch: “Melka Kunture”
  • French: “Melka Kunture”
  • Galician: “Melka Kunture”
  • German: “Melka Awash”
  • German: “Melka Kunture und Balchit: Archäologische und paläontologische Stätten im Hochland von Äthiopien”
  • German: “Melka Kunture”
  • Hausa: “Melka Kunture”
  • Hebrew: “מלכה קונטרה”
  • Hebrew: “מלקה קונטרה”
  • Italian: “Melka Kunture”
  • Japanese: “メルカ＝コントゥレ”
  • Maltese: “Melka Kunture”
  • Persian: “ملکا کنتوره”
  • Polish: “Melka Kunture”
  • Russian: “Мелка-Контуре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Melka Kunture i Balchit”
  • Spanish: “Melka Kunture”
  • Turkish: “Melka Kunture”
  • Ukrainian: “Мелка-Контуре”

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Melka Awash”. Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 4.0.