# Erta Ale

- **Country:** Ethiopia
- **Coordinates:** 13.606389, 40.661389
- **Type:** Shield volcano
- **Range:** Erta Ale Range
- **Listing:** List of volcanoes in Ethiopia
- **Location:** Afar Depression, Afar Region, Ethiopia
- **Map Size:** 200
- **Elevation M:** 613
- **Last Eruption:** 2005 to 2025 and continuing
- **Label Position:** left

In December 2017, a German tourist was fatally shot while descending Erta Ale.

![Photo of Erta Ale](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Erta_Ale.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erta_Ale (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)