Ed-Debba

Ed Debba stands on the Nile at the western edge of the Bayuda country, where routes across the desert meet the river valley. Nearby, Wadi el Melik approaches the Nile from Kordofan, marking a natural corridor through the dry interior. Caravans could leave the river at Ed Debba for Kordofan and Darfur, taking paths that linked the cultivated banks of the Nile with lands far to the west.