🏛️ Lower Valley of the Omo

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The Omo River in southern Ethiopia is the largest Ethiopian river outside the Nile Basin. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and it empties into Lake Turkana on the border with Kenya. The river is the principal stream of an endorheic drainage basin, the Turkana Basin.

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Lower Valley of the Omo is a cultural World Heritage site in Ethiopia, in Africa. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Lower Valley of the Omo was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More sites in Ethiopia

Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela · Simien National Park · Aksum · Fasil Ghebbi · Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town · Lower Omo Valley · Konso Cultural Landscape · Lower Valley of the Awash · Tiya · The Gedeo Cultural Landscape · Bale Mountains National Park · Melka Kunture and Balchit: Archaeological and Palaeontological Sites in the Highland Area of Ethiopia.

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