The Blue Nile (
Amharic: ዓባይ; transliterated: ʿAbbay, but pronounced Abbay;
Arabic: النيل الأزرق;
transliterated: an-Nīl al-Āzraq) is a
river originating at
Lake Tana in
Ethiopia. The river is called the
Abbay in Ethiopia and the Bahr Āzraq بحر أزرق in Sudan.Although there are several feeder streams that flow into Lake Tana, the
sacred source of the river is generally considered to be a small spring at Gishe Abbai at an altitude of approximately 1800
m (5940 ft). The Blue Nile much later joins the
White Nile at
Khartoum,
Sudan and, as the
Nile, flows through
Egypt to the
Mediterranean Sea at
Alexandria. The Blue Nile is so-called because during flood times the water current is so high, it changes colour to an almost black; since in the local Sudanese language the word for black is also used for the color blue.
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