Chilga

Coordinates: 12°45′N 36°40′E / 12.750°N 36.667°E / 12.750; 36.667
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Chilga
ጭልጋ
Woreda
Flag of Chilga
Flag
ZoneMaekelawi Gondar
RegionAmhara
Area
[1]
 • Total3,071.65 km2 (1,185.97 sq mi)
Population
 (2012 est.)
 • Total241,627[2]

Chilga (

Amharic: ጭልጋ č̣ilgā) also Chelga, Ch'ilga is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. It is named after its chief town Chilga (also known as Ayikel), an important stopping point on the historic Gondar-Sudan trade route. Part of the Maekelawi Gondar Zone, Chilga is bordered on the south by Takusa, on the west by Metemma, on the north by Tach Armachiho, on the northeast by Lay Armachiho, and on the east by Dembiya. Other towns in Chilga include Seraba and Wohni
.

Overview

Elevations in this woreda range between 1000 and 1500 meters above sea level. Rivers include the

Central Statistical Agency
(CSA) in 2001.

One notable landmark in this woreda is the archeological site at Chilga Kernet, which was investigated in 2002 as part of the Blue Nile Basin Survey Project. The surface of the site was reported to be "littered with several thousand hand axes and other heavily weathered basalt implements". A preliminary survey led the investigators to speculate that much of the hill is underlain by a layer of Acheulean artifacts of about 2 hectares in size.[4] A program was announced in 2008, which would spend three million Birr on construction of new health stations, at which time there were 45 health posts and two health stations in Chilga, providing health coverage for 88% of the woreda.[5]

Demographics

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the

Agaw people, are an important minority who are concentrated around the town of Aykel. Although the priestly head of the Chilga Qement is the spiritual leader of the Qement south of the Gwang River, the other head priest, who lives at Tekle Dingay, has more prestige. For this reason, the head priest of Chilga on occasion travels to Tekle Dingay to participate in holiday festivities, while the head priest in the latter town does not return the visit.[7]

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 166,086 in 29,955 households, of whom 84,798 were men and 81,288 women; 9,618 or 5.79% of its population were urban dwellers at the time. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Chilga were the

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 96.21% embracing that faith, while 3.7% of the population said they were Muslim.[8]

Economy

The economy of Chilga is predominantly agricultural. According to the Atlas of the Ethiopian Rural Economy published by the CSA, there are no agricultural cooperatives in this woreda. Estimated all-weather road density is reported to be between 10.1 and 20 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.[9] Coal-bearing clay seams near Chilga, north-west of Lake Tana and 35 km from Gondar, were explored in 1937, 1952, and 1960.[7]

A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 33,624 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 0.61 hectares of land. The earlier survey found that of the land under cultivation in Chilga, 64.53% was planted in cereals like

gesho or hops, and 8.02 in fruit trees. 88.76% of the farmers both raise crops and livestock, while 8.57% only grow crops and 2.68% only raise livestock.[10]

Notable people

Notes

  1. ^ Geohive: Ethiopia Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "GeoHive - Ethiopia population statistics". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05.
  3. Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation
    website) This was based on information provided by the woreda in 2003 and 2005
  4. ^ Lawrence Todd, Michelle Glantz, John Kappelman, "Chilga Kernet: An Acheulean landscape on Ethiopia's western plateau", Antiquity, 76 (2002), pp. 611-2
  5. ^ "Woreda constructing 3 mln birr health stations"[permanent dead link], Ethiopian News Agency website (accessed 20 January 2010)
  6. ^ Census 2007 Tables: Amhara Region Archived November 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4.
  7. ^ a b "Local History of Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 22 April 2022)
  8. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Amhara Region, Vol. 1, part 1 Archived November 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.7, 2.10, 2.13, 2.17, Annex II.2 (accessed 9 April 2009)
  9. ^ Atlas of the Ethiopian Rural Economy Archived July 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, pp. 30f
  10. ^ "Central Statistical Authority of Ethiopia. Agricultural Sample Survey (AgSE2001). Report on Area and Production - Amhara Region. Version 1.1 - December 2007"[permanent dead link] (accessed 26 January 2009)

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