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Awash
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Awash is a market town in central Ethiopia. Located in Administrative Zone 3 of the Afar Region. It is situated above a gorge on the Awash River, after which the town is named,[1] and on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway, which reached this far into Ethiopia by 1917; a hotel for passengers was built in Awash about that time.[2]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Awash has an estimated total population of 11,053, of whom 5,748 were males and 5,305 were females.[3] According to the 1994 national census, the town had a population of 8,684
Awash lies outside the Awash National Park, which is known for its wildlife, for the Mount Fentale caldera and for the Filwoha Hot Springs.
- ^ Philip Briggs praises this gorge, noting "the drama of which is accentuated by a row of low volcanic hills above the opposite cliff. (Ethiopia: the Bradt Travel Guide, third edition [London: Bradt, 2002], p. 339)
- ^ Richard Pankhurst, Economic History of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), p. 334.
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.3, which calls the town Awash Sebat Kilo.
