The Simien Mountains National Park was legally gazetted in 1969, along with the Awash National Park and remained the only two national park gazetted in Ethiopia ...

The national park was established in 1969 and is recognised and protected under national protected areas legislation. The property requires an effective ...

The Simien Mountains is part of the 800-kilometer-wide mountain system of Ethiopia, formed out of a combination of volcanic activity and uplifting. It is the ...

The mountains are older than the iconic rift valley, having come into being between 40 and 25 million years ago through volcanic eruptions during the Oligocene ...

History. There is a note in Cosmas Indicopleustes' work that the Simien Mountains were a place of exile for subjects condemned to banishment by the Aksumite ...

The SMNP, after being recommended by the UNESCO mission in 1965, was formally established by 1966 and gazetted in 1966. Due to its unique landscape and the rich ...

SIMIEN NATIONAL PARK ETHIOPIA The Park was one of the first four sites to be inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978. Massive erosion of the Ethiopian ...

For over 2,000 years, the Simien Mountains became home to immigrants, settlers and cultivators, of which some of the first recorded were the Ethiopian Jews.

Starting in 1944, the area was managed as a royal hunting ground by the Department of Forestry, Game and Fishery under the Ministry of Agriculture that was ...