Yangudi Rassa National Park

Yangudi Rassa National Park is one of the National Parks of Ethiopia. Located inside the Afar Region, its 4730 square kilometers of territory include Mount Yangudi close to the southern border and the encompassing Rassa Plains, with altitudes from four hundred to 1459 meters above sea level.

Sandy semi-wasteland and wooded grassland cowl most of the people of the park's location. This park lies among the territory of the Afars and the Issas, and even as violence were common among them, maximum of the park is in a place where they keep away from every different. As a end result, maximum of the lively protection of the park is focused on managing their battle. This countrywide park changed into proposed in 1977 in precise to defend the African wild ass, however the steps needed to formally establish this park had no longer been completed as of 2002. Recently, the wild ass have become extinct in Yagundi Rassa. However, there is a small population inside the adjoining Mile-Serdo Wild Ass Reserve.