Dinder River
The Dinder River (Arabic: نهر الدندر Nahr-ud-dindir, also spelled Dindar; Amharic: ዲንደር ወንዝ, romanized: dīnideri wenizi) is a Blue Nile tributary. It runs for 480 kilometers through Ethiopia and Sudan (300 mi).
The Dinder River originates in the Ethiopian Highlands west of Lake Tana in the Ethiopian woreda of Alefa. It flows northwest from the highlands into the Sudanese state of Sennar's plains. It flows across the plains before joining the Blue Nile near Sennar.
Sudan's Dinder National Park, which extends south from the Dinder, is named after the river. This watershed was previously home to the endangered painted hunting dog, Lycaon pictus; however, this canid is now thought to be extinct in the region due to human population growth and a lack of conservation attention.
Length: 480 km (300 mi)
