The Mugar River (or Mujer) is a north-flowing tributary of the
Abay River in central
Ethiopia
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, which is notable for its deep gorge. Tributaries of the Muger include the Labbu. The Muger has a drainage area of about 8,188 square kilometers. It was bounded by the historical
Endagabatan province.
The Mugar is important as a landmark because it marked the eastern boundary of the kingdom of Damot (before the
Great Oromo migration forced that people across the Abay) and the western one of the district of
Selale. Somewhere in the
Guder-Mugar valleys, the first recorded dinosaur fossil in the
Horn of Africa
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was discovered in 1976. It was a single tooth of a
carnosaur.
The region around Mugar was the traditional territory of the now extinct
Gafat people however they would be expelled by
Amhara emperors in the following centuries and later assimilated by the
Oromo people
The Oromo people (, pron. ) are a Cushitic peoples, Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya. They speak the Oromo language (also called ''Afaan Oromoo''), which is part of the Cushitic language ...
.
See also
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List of rivers of Ethiopia
This is a list of streams and rivers in Ethiopia, arranged geographically by drainage basin. There is an alphabetic list at the end of this article.
Flowing into the Mediterranean
*''Nile (Egypt, Sudan)''
Atbarah River
*Mareb River (or G ...
Notes
Rivers of Ethiopia
Tributaries of the Blue Nile
Ethiopian Highlands
Geography of Oromia
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