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Fafen River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Fafen River is a river of eastern Ethiopia. Rising to the east of Harar, in Harari Region, it cuts through a series of wide, flat shelves of sedimentary rocks made of sandstone, limestone, and gypsum as it descends in a south-eastern direction towards the Shebelle River. The Fafen only joins the Shebelle river during times of heavy rainfall.

Flows through: Ethiopia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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