• Thumbnail for Afar Triangle
    The Afar Triangle (also called the Afar Depression) is a geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction, which is part of the Great Rift Valley...
    15 KB (1,689 words) - 01:54, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Afar Region
    regional borders with the Tigray, Amhara, Oromo and Somali regions. The Afar Triangle, the northern part of which is the Danakil Depression, is part of the...
    21 KB (1,873 words) - 17:24, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Afar Triple Junction
    The latter extends a total of 6,500 kilometers (4,000 mi) from the Afar Triangle to Mozambique. The connecting three arms form a triple junction. The...
    14 KB (1,894 words) - 01:28, 15 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Afar people
    The Afar (Afar: Qafár), also known as the Danakil, Adali and Odali, are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa. They primarily live in the...
    21 KB (2,253 words) - 01:03, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danakil Depression
    Danakil Depression (category Afar Region)
    The Danakil Depression is the northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression in Ethiopia and Eritrea, a geological depression that has resulted...
    10 KB (1,059 words) - 17:31, 5 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oldowan
    following: Koobi Fora Dmanisi Lézignan-la-Cèbe Olduvai Gorge Xiaochangliang Afar Triangle Omo River Nile Swartkrans Dagestan Monte Poggiolo Vértesszőlős Kozarnika...
    66 KB (7,773 words) - 01:03, 16 March 2024
  • Eritrea, and Ethiopia Afar Desert or Danakil Desert, a desert in Ethiopia Afar Region, a regional state of Ethiopia Afar Triangle or Afar Depression, a geological...
    1 KB (185 words) - 15:31, 28 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Erta Ale
    Erta Ale (category Afar Region)
    basaltic shield volcano in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia, which is itself part of the wider Afar Triangle (a barren desert region straddling...
    10 KB (896 words) - 10:47, 18 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danakil Desert
    Danakil Desert (redirect from Afar Desert)
    Danakil Desert (or Afar Desert) is a desert in northeast Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, and northwestern Djibouti. Situated in the Afar Triangle, it stretches...
    10 KB (861 words) - 16:43, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lucy (Australopithecus)
    Lucy (Australopithecus) (category History of the Afar Region)
    discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle, by Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of...
    39 KB (4,468 words) - 18:16, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake Assal (Djibouti)
    Assal is a saline lake that lies 155 m (509 ft) below sea level in the Afar Triangle, making it the lowest point on land in Africa and the third-lowest point...
    25 KB (3,103 words) - 20:56, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Triple junction
    Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the East African Rift centered in the Afar Triangle (the Afar Triple Junction) is the only Ridge-Ridge-Ridge (R-R-R) triple junction...
    19 KB (2,653 words) - 08:53, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Rift Valley
    the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa, and is in the process of...
    11 KB (1,150 words) - 01:54, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Donald Johanson
    fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson was born in Chicago, Illinois to...
    11 KB (970 words) - 22:12, 8 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herto Man
    Herto Man (category Articles containing Afar-language text)
    discovered in 1997 from the Upper Herto member of the Bouri Formation in the Afar Triangle, Ethiopia. The remains have been dated as between 154,000 and 160,000...
    16 KB (2,068 words) - 20:48, 9 March 2024
  • known as the Afar Triangle, located in the north of the country. Also known as the Danakil depression or Afar depression, this triangle is the lowest...
    10 KB (1,289 words) - 09:19, 16 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Dallol (hydrothermal system)
    Dallol (hydrothermal system) (category Afar Region)
    Dallol lies in the evaporitic plain of the Danakil Depression at the Afar Triangle, in the prolongation of the Erta Ale basaltic volcanic range. The intrusion...
    16 KB (1,809 words) - 06:46, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Active volcano
    Nyamuragira, are Africa's most active volcanoes. Erta Ale, in the Afar Triangle, has maintained a lava lake since at least 1906. Mount Erebus, in Antarctica...
    26 KB (2,406 words) - 01:49, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human evolution
    afarensis, was found in 1974 by Donald Johanson near Hadar in the desertic Afar Triangle region of northern Ethiopia. Although the specimen had a small brain...
    251 KB (26,095 words) - 22:27, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Africa
    discussion. The name had usually been connected with the Phoenician word ʿafar meaning "dust", but a 1981 hypothesis has asserted that it stems from the...
    180 KB (18,804 words) - 16:26, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake Abbe
    Lake Abbe (category Afar Region)
    ultimate destination of the Awash River, which is at the center of the Afar Triangle. Lake Abbe is considered one of the most inaccessible areas of the earth...
    9 KB (772 words) - 02:35, 24 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for East African Rift
    the Afar Triple Junction, the rift follows two paths: west to the Red Sea Rift and east to the Aden Ridge in the Gulf of Aden. Southward from the Afar Triple...
    29 KB (3,204 words) - 10:05, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for African Plate
    east. One hypothesis proposes the existence of a mantle plume beneath the Afar region, whereas an opposing hypothesis asserts that the rifting is merely...
    8 KB (865 words) - 23:09, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of deserts
    desert in present-day Namibia Danakil Desert – a desert lying in the Afar Triangle and covering northeastern Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, southern Djibouti...
    12 KB (1,393 words) - 23:06, 22 February 2024
  • Hadar, Ethiopia (category Afar Region)
    River (Adayitu kebele). It is situated on the southern edge of the Afar Triangle (part of East Africa's Great Rift Valley), along the left banks of the...
    42 KB (2,458 words) - 00:52, 24 March 2024
  • transitional between Australopithecus and Homo habilis was discovered in the Afar Triangle in 2015. The find was made by Ethiopian student Chalachew Seyoum at...
    13 KB (1,359 words) - 14:41, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mid-ocean ridge
    Volcanoes portal Geography portal Geology portal Afar Triangle – Geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction Geography of Iceland – Geographical...
    36 KB (4,663 words) - 06:09, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eritrea
    to the precipitous cliffs and canyons of the southern highlands. The Afar Triangle or Danakil Depression of Eritrea is the probable location of a triple...
    168 KB (16,622 words) - 00:08, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Congo Basin
    Orogen Mauritanide Belt Pan-African orogens Terra Australis Orogen Rifts Afar Triangle Anza trough Bahr el Arab rift Benue Trough Blue Nile rift East African...
    18 KB (2,163 words) - 21:33, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dabbahu Volcano
    Dabbahu Volcano (category Afar Region)
    active volcano located in the remote Afar Region of Ethiopia. This stratovolcano is part of the Afar Triangle (Afar Depression), a highly active volcanic...
    4 KB (348 words) - 00:48, 11 December 2023