The lake lays in the Ethiopian highlands at an elevation of 2409 meters, it has no outlet. Lake Hashenge is five kilometers long and four wide, with a surface area of 20 square kilometers.
It is located about 628 km north of Addis Ababa, capital of the country. It has surface area and maximum depth of 20 km 2 and 25 m respectively
The British explorer Henry Salt, who notes that the Tigrinya name of the lake is Tsada Bahri ("White Sea") from the number of birds which cover its surface, records a local tradition that a large city once stood on the site of Ashenge, but "it was destroyed, in his displeasure, by the immediate hand of God."
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