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Gilo River

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Burchard Heinrich Jessen, who was part of W.N. McMillan's expedition that traveled through this part of southwestern Ethiopia in 1904, estimated its length at 200 miles and noted that at flood the width of the Gilo reaches 80 to 100 yards, with a depth of about 20 feet. Jessen further wrote that at
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The river abounds with fish, and as a natural consequence, the crocodiles are very numerous and large. At midday, practically every sandbank is covered with them. It is a remarkable fact that the hippopotami are conspicuous by their absence, only one having been seen and killed many years ago, as
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reports, having followed the Gilo from its source west as far as this lake. (Neumann, "From the Somali Coast through Southern Ethiopian to Sudan",
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before World War II and in the 1950s, but not enough was found to make commercial extraction viable.
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settlers in the early 20th century knew it by a third name, "Bako". From its source in the
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of Dizu call it the "Mene", while the Gemira of Chako call it "Owis", and
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The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 1 June 2008)
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these animals are plentiful everywhere in these countries.
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Index


Gambela Region
Ethiopia
Gimira
Amhara
Oromo
Ethiopian Highlands
Mizan Teferi
Lake Tata
Pibor River
Sudan
Sobat River
White Nile
Baro Salient
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List of Ethiopian rivers
"A Journey in South-Western Abyssinia", Geographical Journal
Oscar Rudolph Neumann
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"Local History in Ethiopia"
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"South-Western Abyssinia," Geographical Journal
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