Angereb River

Angereb River

The Angereb also known as the "Bahr as-Salam" is a river of Ethiopia and eastern Sudan and one of the sources of the Nile.

It rises in at a height of 6,000 to 10,000 feet above sea level, north of Lake Tana near Gonder, in Ethiopia. [cite web|url=http://original.britannica.com/eb/topic-49064/Bahr-as-Salam|title=Bahr as-Salam, or Angereb River (river, East Africa)|publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=August 30|accessyear=2008] It flows west into the Atbara River.

The Angereb Dam spans the river, built in 1986 for water supply purposes. [cite web|url=http://www.nbcbn.com/Project_Documents/Progress_Reports/RM-G1.pdf|date=2005|title=Assessment of the Current State of the Nile Basin Reservoir Sedimentation Problems|publisher=Nile Basin Capacity Building Network for River Engineering|accessdate=August 30|accessyear=2008 ]

ee also

*List of Ethiopian rivers
*List of rivers of Sudan

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