Gambella

Gambela is a town and separate woreda in Ethiopia and the capital of the Gambela Region or kilil. Located in Anuak Zone, at the confluence of the Baro River and its tributary the Jajjaba, the town has a latitude and longitude of 8°15′N 34°35′ECoordinates: 8°15′N 34°35′E and an elevation of 526 meters. It is surrounded by means of Gambela Zuria.

Gambela become based due to its place at the Baro, a tributary of the Nile, which changed into visible by way of each the British and Ethiopia as an exquisite toll road for exporting espresso and different items from the fertile Ethiopian Highlands to Sudan and Egypt. Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia granted Britain use of a port along the Baro May 15, 1902, and in 1907 the port and a customs station have been based at Gambela. A shipping provider run by Sudan Railways linked Khartoum with Gambela, a distance of 1,366 kilometers. According to Richard Pankhurst, with the aid of the mid-Nineteen Thirties boats sailed twice a month at some point of the wet season, taking seven days downstream and 11 upstream.