Sha·bel·le 
(shā-bĕlē, shə-) or She·be·le (shē-bālē, shə-)
(shā-bĕlē, shə-) or She·be·le (shē-bālē, shə-) A river, about 1,130 km (700 mi) long, of northeast Africa rising in central Ethiopia and flowing southeast into Somalia then southwest in a course parallel to the Indian Ocean coastline. It disappears in a swampland in southern Somalia.