Dabus River
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The Dabus River is a north-flowing tributary of the Abay River in southwestern Ethiopia. It is politically important because its course defines not only part of the boundary between the Benishangul-Gumaz and the Oromia Regions, but also because it defines the entire shared boundary of the Asosa and Kamashi Zones of the Benishangul-Gumaz Region.
The Dabus is a historically significant source for gold, where the local inhabitants used placer mining to recover the mineral.[1]
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- ^ Quoted in Richard Pankhurst, Economic History of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), p. 233.
