Abay

Gish Abay is on a dirt road, high up in the soggy green hills of western Ethiopia.

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GWEN THOMPKINS: Most maps don't even mention this place, but there's a village in Ethiopia called Gish Abay where people say you can find the real source of the Nile River.

Ethiopia Claims High Ground In Right-To-Nile Debate 2010

The Ethiopians call it Little Abay, but others call it the beginning of the Blue Nile, a major tributary that makes the Nile River great.

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The 73-MW Tis Abay 2 facility, located on the Blue Nile (Abay) came online in 2001.

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Abay, with the exception of the Yabous, which is, according to Bruce, a considerable stream descending from the south and south-east, are all small streams.

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Bruce states most pointedly that the capital of Enarea is fifty leagues distant from the passage of the Abay at Mine, "due south, a little inclining to the west," (Vol.iii. page 324;) and which bearing and distance corresponds very correctly with several very clear and satisfactory itineraries lately obtained.

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Toumat, the Yabous, the Maleg, and other rivers which flow north into the Abay.

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Amongst the maps there was one of the countries to the south of the Abay, including Enarea, Kaffa, and

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The only portion connected with Shoa which the others had not visited, is about thirty-five miles of the lower course of the Jimma, near its junction with the Abay, where the latter stream is about 600 feet broad, and from three to five feet deep.

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Dumbaro (or Tzamburo, as the Doctor calls it in the map alluded to) is laid down between eight degrees and nine degrees north latitude, and west of Wallega; Tuftee is placed more to the north on the river designated the Blue River, and Gobo still further north upon it, in fact adjoining to its junction with the Abay.

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