Wadi Howar

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Wadi Howar ( Wadi Howa ), also called Yellow Nile is a wadi - Coming from Chad - forms places the border with Sudan.

Here it separates West Darfur and the Borkou - Ennedi - Tibesti Region. In the rainy season it flows 400 km through the Sudanese state of North Darfur. During the so-called " green Sahara " time ( about 10,000 to 3000 BC ) led the Wadi Howar as the most important tributary from the Sahara on the territory of today's state of Northern Province at Old Dongola in the Nile.

Parts of the Wadi also still a seasonal pasture for nomadic groups of Kababish and Hawawir dar.

Archaeological sites such as the Napatan fortress Gala Abu Ahmed testify to the importance of the wadi in historical times.