Atbara Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Atbara, Sudan | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,198 ft / 365 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 17°42′35″N34°03′25″E / 17.70972°N 34.05694°E | ||||||||||
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  Atbara Airport Location of airport in Sudan | |||||||||||
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Source: Great Circle Mapper [1] | |||||||||||
Atbara Airport( IATA : ATB, ICAO : HSAT) is an airport serving Atbarah (or Atbara), [1] a town located in the River Nile state in northeastern Sudan.
The airport resides at an elevation of 1,181 feet (360 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway which measures 1,800 by 40 metres (5,906 ft × 131 ft). [1]
The Atbarah River, also referred to as the Red Nile and / or Black Nile, is a river in northeast Africa. It rises in northwest Ethiopia, approximately 50 km north of Lake Tana and 30 km west of Gondar. It then flows about 805 km (500 mi) to the Nile in north-central Sudan, joining it at the city of Atbarah. The river's tributary, the Tekezé (Setit) River, is perhaps the true upper course of the Atbarah, as the Tekezé follows the longer course prior to the confluence of the two rivers in northeastern Sudan. The Atbarah is the last tributary of the Nile before it reaches the Mediterranean.
Berber is a town in the River Nile state of northern Sudan, 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Atbara, near the junction of the Atbara River and the Nile.
Atbara is a city located in River Nile State in northeastern Sudan.
The Battle of Atbara also known as the Battle of the Atbara River took place during the Mahdist War. Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated 15,000 Mahdists on the banks of the River Atbara. The battle proved to be the turning point in the reconquest of Sudan by the British and Egyptian coalition.
Before the independence of South Sudan, the States of Sudan were subdivided into 133 districts. With the adoption of the Interim National Constitution of Sudan and the Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan, the ten states of South Sudan are, however, now divided into counties. The maps on this page represent the boundaries as they existed in 2006. Current information is available from the Humanitarian Data Exchange.
Al Ahly SC is an Egyptian sports club based in Cairo, Egypt.
Alamal Sports Club Atbara is a Sudanese football club based in Atbara. They play in the top division in Sudanese football, Sudan Premier League. Their home stadium is Stade Al-Amal Atbara.
Atbara Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Atbara, Sudan. It is currently used primarily for football matches and is the home stadium of Alamal SC Atbara. The stadium has a capacity of 15,000 people.
Railway stations in Sudan include:
Khashm el-Girba is a town in Kassala (state), north-eastern Sudan, located on the Atbarah River. The Khashm el-Girba Dam is located about 4 km (2 mi) south of the town.
Sudan has 4,725 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railways. The main line runs from Wadi Halfa on the Egyptian border to Khartoum and southwest to El-Obeid via Sennar and Kosti, with extensions to Nyala in Southern Darfur and Wau in Western Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. Other lines connect Atbara and Sennar with Port Sudan, and Sennar with Ad-Damazin. A 1,400-kilometer line serves the Al Jazirah cotton-growing region. There are plans to rehabilitate rail transport to reverse decades of neglect and declining efficiency. Service on some lines may be interrupted during the rainy season.
The Upper Atbara and Setit Dam Complex is a twin dam complex comprising Rumela Dam on the Upper Atbarah River and Burdana Dam on the Setit (Tekezé) River in eastern Sudan. The site of the twin dam is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) upstream from the junction of the Atbarah and Setit rivers and about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of the Khashm el-Girba Dam. Construction began in 2011 was expected to be completed by March 2016. The 320 MW dam was inaugurated by President Omar al-Bashir in February 2017, with final stages completed later that year.
Al-Ahli Club of Atbara is a football club from Atbara, Sudan. They play in the top level of Sudanese professional football, the Sudan Premier League.Their home stadium is Atbara Stadium. It has a capacity of 13,000.
The 2015 Sudan Premier League is the 44th season of top-tier football in Sudan. The season began play on 26 January 2015. Al Hilal Omdurman are the defending champions, having won their 28th championship, more than the rest of the clubs in the league combined.
The Sudanese Professionals' Association is an umbrella association of 17 different Sudanese trade unions. The organisation started forming in October 2012, though was not officially registered due to government crackdowns on trade unions, and was created more formally in October 2016 by an alliance between unions of doctors, journalists and lawyers. In December 2018, the group called for the introduction of a minimum wage and participated in protests in Atbara against the rising cost of living. The SPA came to take an increasingly prominent role in the 2018–2019 Sudanese protests against the government of Omar al-Bashir during 2019. The organisation is also a member of the Progressive International.