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The Afar Triangle, the northern part of which is the Danakil Depression, is part of the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, and is located in the north of the region. It has the lowest point in Ethiopia and one of the lowest in Africa.
The Depression overlaps the borders of Eritrea, Djibouti and the entire Afar Region of Ethiopia; and it contains the lowest point in Africa, Lake Assal, Djibouti, at 155 m (509 ft) below sea level. The Awash River is the main waterflow into the region, but it runs dry during the annual dry season, and ends as a chain of saline lakes.
The Afar (Afar: Qafár), also known as the Danakil, Adali and Odali, are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa. [4] They primarily live in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and in northern Djibouti, as well as the entire southern coast of Eritrea. The Afar speak the Afar language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the ...
Erta Ale erupting within the Danakil Depression Mount Ayalu, the westernmost and older of two volcanoes at the southern end of the Danakil Depression. The Danakil Depression is the northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression in Ethiopia and Eritrea, [1] [2] a geological depression that has resulted from the divergence of three tectonic plates in the Horn of Africa.
Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa. ... The Somali Region and the Danakil Depression in the Afar Region have a hot, ... World Meteorological Organisation ...
The Danakil Desert (or Afar Desert) is a desert in northeast Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, and northwestern Djibouti. Situated in the Afar Triangle, it stretches across 136,956 square kilometres (52,879 sq mi) [citation needed] of arid terrain. It is inhabited by a few Afar, who engage in salt mining.
Erta Ale (or Ertale or Irta'ale; / ˈ ər t ə ˈ eɪ l / Amharic: ኤርታሌ) is a continuously active basaltic shield volcano in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia, which is itself part of the wider Afar Triangle (a barren desert region straddling Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea).
Samara (Afar: Samara; Amharic: ሰመራ) is the capital of Afar Region, Ethiopia. It is a town on the Awash–Assab highway in north-east Ethiopia, having been planned and built to replace Asaita. Located in Administrative Zone 1, Samara has a latitude and longitude of .