OMO
See also: OMO
The Omo is a Rivière Ethiopia, long of 760 km, which is thrown in the Lac Turkana by a Delta. It takes its source in the south-west of Addis-Abeba and spawning time a tortuous way in the Ethiopian plate.
With the crossroads of the borders with the Sudan and the Kenya, the pale mornings of the valley of Omo reveal contours of a country isolated by high plateaus, the marshes and savanna. While certain villagers burn the future cultivable surfaces, the other members of the tribe left to make feed the herds, not without to have left sentinels around their field. In all the area, the interethnic conflicts are frequent.
The course of the river was explored of 1887 with 1897 by the Italian artillery lieutenant Vittorio Bottego at the time of forwardings financed by its country, which was sought at the time a colonial role with equal other great nations of Europe.
The valley of the paleontologists
The valley of Omo is known for its paleontological layers , witnesses of the times Pliocène and Pléistocène in Africa. One discovered there the bones of the Paranthropus aethiopicus . ----
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