Wanchet River Explained

Wanchet River
Name Other:Wonchit
Mouth:Jamma River
Mouth Coordinates:10.0646°N 38.6668°W
Progression:JammaBlue NileNileMediterranean Sea
River System:Nile Basin
Basin Population:818,000
Tributaries Left:Qechene River
Tributaries Right:Jara
Country:Ethiopia

Wanchet River is a river of central Ethiopia, and a tributary of the Jamma River. Along with the Adabay River, it defined the border of the former district of Marra Biete.[1]

Its crossing "Aqui afagi" (Aheya Fajj, Amharic "destroyer of donkeys") is mentioned in the account of Portuguese explorer Francisco Álvares, who crossed it several times in the first quarter of the 16th century.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. G.W.B. Huntingford, The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704, (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 153
  2. Huntingford, Historical Geography, pp. 32f, 81