
Ancestral land of the Mursi people, known for the lip plates worn by the women as ceremonial adornment
Area
2,162 km²
Protection category
IUCN II
Parque nacional —
Designated in
1979
Declared in 1979, Mago is the ancestral land of the Mursi, known internationally for the clay lip plates that the women insert into the lower lip, working up in size from adolescence — a form of body adornment whose exact meaning (social standing, marriage value, group identity) is still debated by anthropologists, and which draws a growing cultural tourism not free of ethical controversy over its commercialisation.
Threatened:
Ecosystems found in Ethiopia, where Mago lies.
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Same country: Ethiopia
Same country: Ethiopia
Same country: Ethiopia
Same country: Ethiopia
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Region
Horn of Africa (Omo valley)
Climate
Tropical, Arid / desert, Temperate, Mountain
Endemic species of Ethiopia:
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