奧莫河

奧莫河（Omo River）是埃塞俄比亞西南部的重要河流，整條河道在埃塞俄比亞境內，進入與肯尼亚接壤的圖爾卡納湖。奧莫河是內流盆地流域的主要河流。根據埃塞俄比亞中央統計局資料，奧莫河全長760公里。1980年，靠近图尔卡纳湖地区的谷地列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产，登录名称为奥莫低谷。

2006年的大雨使奧莫河下游氾濫，淹死最少456人，過度放牧和森林開伐被指是釀成慘劇的元兇。

早期發現
在奧莫河的河岸，考古學家找到來自早期更新世時代到上新世時代的Olduwan 原始人化石碎片。這些碎片是現已滅絕的南方古猿的一個重要發現。

參考文獻
延伸閱讀

• Butzer, Karl W. (1971). Recent history of an Ethiopian delta: the Omo River and the level of Lake Rudolph, Research paper 136, Department of Geography, University of Chicago, 184 p., LCCN 70-184080
• Camerapix (2000). Spectrum Guide to Ethiopia, First American Ed., Brooklyn: Interlink, ISBN 1-56656-350-X
• Hurd, W. (2006). "[http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/rangers-birth Rangers by Birth] ", Cultural Survival Quarterly, 30.2, website accessed 31 October 2007
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre (2007). [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/17 Lower Valley of the Omo] , World Heritage List, website accessed 31 October 2007
• Vannutelli, L. and Citerni, C. (1899). Seconda spedizione Bòttego: L'Omo, viaggio d'esplorazione nell'Africa Orientale, Milano : Hoepli, 650 p.

外部連結
*[http://www.selamta.net/omo_park.htm Omo National Park]
*[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v222/n5199/abs/2221132a0.html Early Homo sapiens Remains from the Omo River Region of South-west Ethiopia: Faunal Remains from the Omo Valley]
*[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223122209.htm The Oldest Homo sapiens]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160307222523/http://www.slidespost.com/zoom.php?id=2326 The African Tribes of OMO]