{{short description|Tributary river in central Ethiopia}}{{Infobox river | name = Mugar River | map = Abbay OSM.png | map_caption = Map showing the Abbay (Blue Nile) basin, with the Mugar River (bottom right) | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|9.918069|N|37.930343|E|display=title, inline}} | other_name = Muger, Mujer | country = Ethiopia | mouth = Blue Nile | mouth_elevation = {{cvt|979|m}} | progression = Blue Nile → Nile → Mediterranean Sea | river_system = Nile Basin | basin_size = {{cvt|8188|km2}} }}
The '''Mugar River''' (or '''Mujer''')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ullendorff |first1=Edward |title=The Glorious Victories of 'Amda Ṣeyon, King of Ethiopia |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=607 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/611476}}</ref> is a north-flowing tributary of the Abay River in central Ethiopia, which is notable for its deep gorge. Tributaries of the Muger include the Labbu. The Muger has a drainage area of about 8,188 square kilometers.<ref>[http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/05/09/000334955_20080509032052/Rendered/PDF/434000PAD0P09617372B01off0use0only1.pdf "Tana & Beles Integrated Water Resources Development: Project Appraisal Document (PAD), Vol.1"], World Bank, 2 May 2008 (accessed 5 May 2009)</ref> It was bounded by the historical Endagabatan province.<ref>{{cite book |title=Endagabatan |publisher=Encyclopedia Aethiopica |url=https://en.sewasew.com/p/e-nda-ga-bta-n-(%E1%8A%A5%E1%8A%95%E1%8B%B0-%E1%8C%88%E1%89%A5%E1%8C%A0%E1%8A%95)}}</ref>
The Mugar is important as a landmark because it marked the eastern boundary of the kingdom of Damot (before the Great Oromo migration forced that people across the Abay) and the western one of the district of Selale.<ref>G.W.B. Huntingford, ''Historical Geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704'' (London: British Academy, 1989), p. 69</ref> Somewhere in the Guder-Mugar valleys, the first recorded dinosaur fossil in the Horn of Africa was discovered in 1976. It was a single tooth of a carnosaur.<ref>[https://nai.uu.se/library/resources/thematic-resources/local-history-of-ethiopia.html "Local History of Ethiopia"] The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 22 April 2022)</ref>
The region around Mugar was the traditional territory of the now extinct Gafat people however they would be expelled by Amhara emperors in the following centuries and later assimilated by the Oromo people.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hassen |first1=Mohammed |title=Oromo of Ethiopia |publisher=University of London |page=308 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29226/1/10731321.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Mugar |publisher=Encyclopedia Aethiopica |url=https://en.sewasew.com/p/muga-r-(%E1%88%99%E1%8C%88%E1%88%AD)}}</ref>
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{{Rivers of Ethiopia}}
Category:Rivers of Ethiopia Category:Tributaries of the Blue Nile Category:Ethiopian Highlands Category:Geography of Oromia
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