Dallol
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.
- Type: Locality
- Description: place in Afar Region, Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Dallol (ghost town)” and “Ghost Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Danakil Depression and Dallol.
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.
Dallol
Volcano
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.
Dallol
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Afar Region, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
14.23942° or 14° 14′ 22″ north
Longitude
40.2937° or 40° 17′ 37″ east
Open location code
7H6267QV+QF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Dallol” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دلول”
- Bengali: “দালোল”
- Chinese: “達洛爾”
- Chinese: “達羅爾”
- Czech: “Dallol”
- Dutch: “Dallol”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دلول”
- Esperanto: “Dallol”
- Esperanto: “fantomurbo”
- French: “Dallol”
- Ga: “Dallol (ghost town)”
- Ga: “Ghost Town”
- German: “Dallol”
- Hausa: “Dallol (ghost town)”
- Hausa: “Dallol”
- Hausa: “Fatalwa Gari”
- Hebrew: “דללול”
- Indonesian: “Dallol, Ethiopia”
- Italian: “Dallol”
- Japanese: “ダロル”
- Portuguese: “Dallol”
- Romanian: “Dallol, Etiopia”
- Romanian: “Dallol”
- Russian: “Даллол”
- Spanish: “Dallol”
- Twi: “Dallol (ɔsaman kurow)”
- Twi: “Dallol”
- Twi: “Ɔsaman Kurow”
- Yue Chinese: “達羅爾”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Danakhil Depression Potash Project and Salt mountains.
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