The Dinder River (, also spelled Dindar; ) is a
tributary
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of the
Blue Nile
The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major Tributary, tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the wa ...
. It flows through
Ethiopia
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and
Sudan
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for based on GIS measurements.
Course
The Dinder River rises in the
Ethiopian Highlands, west of
Lake Tana in the Ethiopian
woreda
Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas (; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''List of zones of Ethiopia, zones'' and the ''Regions of Ethiopia, regional states''.
These districts are f ...
of
Alefa. It flows northwest out of the highlands and into the plains of the Sudanese
state of
Sennar. It
meander
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s across the plains to join the Blue Nile near the town of
Sennar.
Natural features
The
Dinder National Park of Sudan, which stretches south from the Dinder, is named after the river. This watershed was previously habitat to the endangered
painted hunting dog, ''Lycaon pictus''; however, this
canine is thought to be
extirpated in the region
[C. Michael Hogan. 2009] due to
expansion of the human population and lack of attention to conservation.
See also
*
List of rivers of Ethiopia
*
List of rivers of Sudan
References
* C. Michael Hogan. 2009
''Painted Hunting Dog: Lycaon pictus'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
Line notes
Rivers of Ethiopia
Rivers of Sudan
Amhara Region
Tributaries of the Blue Nile
International rivers of Africa
Sennar State
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