Guder River

The Guder is a river of central Ethiopia. It is a tributary of the Abay or Blue Nile on the left side; tributaries of the Guder include the Dabissa and the Taranta. The Guder River has a drainage area about 7,011 square kilometers in size.[1]

A Greek resident built the first bridge over the Guder in 1897.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. "Tana & Beles Integrated Water Resources Development: Project Appraisal Document (PAD), Vol.1", World Bank, 2 May 2008 (accessed 5 May 2009)
  2. Richard Pankhurst, Economic History of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie University, 1968), p. 299

Coordinates: 9°55′N 37°56′E / 9.917°N 37.933°E / 9.917; 37.933


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