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-Gumuz and the Oromia Regions, but also because it defines the entire shared boundary of the Asosa and Kamashi Zones of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.

This river was formerly known as the Yabus, and local speakers still refer to it by that name, without distinction for the Yabus in Sudan that is a tributary of the White Nile. Juan Maria Schuver was the first European explorer to determine that they were two separate rivers, and in 1882 proved false the rumor that these rivers flowed from the same mountain lake.[1]

The Dabus is a historically significant source for gold, where the local inhabitants used placer mining to recover the mineral.[2]

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  1. ^ Wendy James, Gerd Baumann and Douglas H. Johnson, Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996), pp. 132f
  2. ^ Quoted in Richard Pankhurst, Economic History of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), p. 233.
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Coordinates: 10°37′N 35°09′E / 10.617, 35.15