6 Facts About Blue Nile

1. The Blue Nile begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flows into Sudan from the southeast.

2. The White Blue Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source still undetermined but located in either Rwanda or Burundi.

3. The Blue Nile Falls are enriched with different types of wildlife that can only be found in Ethiopia.

4. The Blue Nile Falls has an enormous height of 37 to 45 meters or around 150 feet and its width is estimated at about half a mile.

5. The Blue Nile was a major source of the flooding of the Nile that contributed to the fertility of the Nile Valley and the consequent rise of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian mythology.

6. The Blue Nile flows generally south from Lake Tana and then west across Ethiopia and northwest into Sudan.