Awash National Park

Awash National Park is one of the countrywide parks of Ethiopia. Spanning throughout the southern tip of the Afar Region and the northeastern corner of the Misraq Shewa Zone of Oromia, this park is 225 kilometers east of Addis Ababa with its southern boundary alongside the Awash River, and covers 756 rectangular kilometers of acacia forest and grassland. The Addis Ababa - Dire Dawa highway passes thru this park, separating the Illala Saha Plains to the south from the Kudu Valley to the north.

In the south of the park the Awash River gorge has extremely good waterfalls. In the upper Kudu Valley at Filwoha are hot springs amid groves of palm timber. The Awash National Park changed into mounted in 1966, although the act authorizing its lifestyles changed into not completely handed for another three years. In organising this park, in addition to the Metehara Sugar Plantation to the south, the livelihoods of the Karayyu Oromo human beings indigenous to that location had been endangered an impact that is opposite to the Ethiopian government's original goal of these institutions helping advantage the local populace.