Gilo River

Gilo River

The Gilo River is a river in the Gambela Region of southwestern Ethiopia. From its source in the Ethiopian Highlands near Mizan Teferi it flows to join the Pibor River on Ethiopia's border with Sudan. Its waters then join the Sobat River and the White Nile. [cite book |last= Shinn |first= David H. |coauthors= Thomas P. Ofcansky |title= Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia |year= 2004 |publisher= Scarecrow Press |isbn= 0810849100 |pages= pp. 360-361; online at [http://books.google.com/books?id=zbvd6_eLw_0C Google Books] ]

Lying between the Baro River and Akobo River, the Gilo River flows mainly through the Baro Salient, a portion of Ethiopia that juts westward into Sudan. The river valley was subjected to a great deal of prospecting for gold before World War II and in the 1950s, but not enough was found to make commercial extraction viable. [ [http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/g/ORTGIA.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 1 June 2008)]

ee also

*List of Ethiopian rivers

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