# Lake Afambo

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Lake in Ethiopia

Lake Afambo Lake Afambo Location eastern end of the Afar Region Coordinates 11°25′19″N 41°40′21″E / 11.42194°N 41.67250°E / 11.42194; 41.67250 Primary inflows Awash River Basin countries Ethiopia Max. length 13 km (8.1 mi) Max. width 2 km (1.2 mi) Surface area 1,760 ha (4,300 acres)

**Lake Afambo** is one of a chain of lakes into which the [Awash River](/source/Awash_River) empties its waters. It is located at the eastern end of the [Afar Region](/source/Afar_Region) of [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia).

## Overview

The lake lies on a roughly north–south axis, 13 kilometers long by two wide, having 1760 hectares of open water.[1] Afambo receives its inflow from [Lake Gummare](/source/Lake_Gummare) from a channel at its northern point, and has its outflow in the swamps on its southwest shores where it empties into [Lake Bario](/source/Lake_Bario).

The first European to visit Lake Afambo was [Wilfred Thesiger](/source/Wilfred_Thesiger), who explored the course of the Awash to its ultimate ending point in 1935. Thesiger led his party along the eastern and southern sides of this lake.[2] This area did not see another visitor from outside Ethiopia until Pele Thompson retraced Thesiger's steps in May and June 2001. There had been a bridge over the channel linking lakes Gummare and Afambo at Ebobe, but it had "collapsed some time ago." Further, while Lake Afambo had been a [fresh water](/source/Fresh_water) lake when Thesiger visited in, it has since become very saline due to the amount of water diverted upstream for irrigation purposes.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Robert Mepham, R. H. Hughes, and J. S. Hughes, [*A directory of African wetlands*](https://books.google.com/books?id=VLjafeXa3gMC&pg=PP1), (Cambridge: IUCN, UNEP and WCMC, 1992), p. 166

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Thesiger, ["The Awash River and the Aussa Sultanate"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1787031), *[Geographical Journal](/source/Geographical_Journal)*, 85 (1935), p. 16

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Philip Briggs, *Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide*, 5th edition (Chalfont St Peters: Bradt, 2009), pp. 402f

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