Nile 1st. Cataract

The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths of the Nile river, between and , where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Locality
  • Description: series of six whitewater rapids
  • Also known as: “Cataracts of the Nile”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aswan Dam and New Kalabsha.

Dam
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Aswan High Dam, often called simply , is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built between 1960 and 1970 across the Nile in , Egypt.

Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a promontory located near in . Created during the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, it houses several important temples, structures, and other remains that have been relocated here from the site of Old Kalabsha and other sites in Lower Nubia, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser caused by the construction of the .

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The is an ancient Egyptian temple that was originally located at Bab al-Kalabsha, approximately 50 km south of . In the 1960s, in a process that took two years, the temple was relocated under the International Campaign to Save the…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shellal.

Village
is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of in . It was the traditional northern frontier of the region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire. is situated 8 km north of Nile 1st. Cataract.

Nile 1st. Cataract

Latitude
23.9737° or 23° 58′ 25″ north
Longitude
32.88205° or 32° 52′ 55″ east
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
Q649907
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Nile 1st. Cataract” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Katarakte van die Nyl”
  • Amharic: “የአባይ ሙላቶች”
  • Arabic: “الشلال الاول”
  • Arabic: “الشلالات الستة”
  • Arabic: “شلال ثالث”
  • Arabic: “شلالات النيل”
  • Arabic: “شلالات ستة”
  • Arabic: “شلالات نيلية”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nilin axarları”
  • Breton: “Dourlamm an Nil”
  • Chinese: “尼罗河第一瀑布”
  • Chinese: “尼羅河瀑布”
  • Chinese: “尼羅河第二瀑布羣”
  • Chinese: “尼羅河第二瀑布群”
  • Croatian: “Katarakti na Nilu”
  • Czech: “Nilské katarakty”
  • Danish: “Nilens katarakter”
  • Dutch: “Cataract”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شلالات النيل”
  • Esperanto: “Kataraktoj de Nilo”
  • Finnish: “Niilin kataraktit”
  • French: “Cataracte du Nil”
  • French: “Cataractes du Nil”
  • German: “Nilkatarakte”
  • Hebrew: “אשדות הנילוס”
  • Hungarian: “Katarakta”
  • Icelandic: “Flúðir Nílar”
  • Indonesian: “Riam Sungai Nil”
  • Italian: “Cateratte del Nilo”
  • Japanese: “ナイル川の急流”
  • Japanese: “ナイル川急湍”
  • Japanese: “ナイル川第2急湍”
  • Lithuanian: “Nilo slenksčiai”
  • Malay: “Riam Sungai Nil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nilens katarakter”
  • Norwegian: “Nilens katarakter”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cataractas del Nil”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas do Nilo”
  • Portuguese: “Quedas do rio Nilo”
  • Russian: “Пороги Нила”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Katarakti na Nilu”
  • Slovenian: “Katarakti na Nilu”
  • Spanish: “Cataratas del Nilo”
  • Tamil: “நைல் ஆற்றின் புரைகள்”
  • Thai: “แก่งน้ำตกแห่งแม่น้ำไนล์”
  • Turkish: “Nil akanakları”
  • Ukrainian: “Пороги Нілу”

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