Gilo River
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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- ^ Shinn, David H.; Thomas P. Ofcansky (2004). Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia. Scarecrow Press, pp. 360-361. ISBN 0810849100.; online at Google Books
- ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 1 June 2008)
