Dendi (woreda)
Dendi is a
Overview
The highest point in this woreda is Mount Dendi (3260 meters), located on the border with Wonchi woreda. Notable landscape features include the Chilimo forest, a wooded area 2400 hectares in size near Ginchi, which is a remnant of the dry afromontane forest on the Ethiopian Central Plateau.[1]
The major micro-finance institutions operating in Dendi are the
Demographics
The 2007 national census reported this woreda's population as 165,803, of whom 83,988 were men and 81,815 women; 25,322 or 15.27% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants (84.98%) said they practiced
Based on figures published by the
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 181,288, of whom 90,132 were men and 91,156 women; 16,581 or 9.15% of its population were urban dwellers at the time. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Dendi were the
Notes
- ^ "Important Bird Area factsheet: Chilimo forest, Ethiopia", BirdLife International website (accessed 1 September 2009)
- ^ "Credit and saving associations said they have given more than 8 million birr loan in a Wereda over the past nine months" (9 April 2008) Oromia State Government website (accessed 7 May 2009)
- ^ "Ginchi town inaugurates paper factory"[permanent dead link], Ethiopian News Agency, 2 August 2009 (accessed 2 November 2009)
- ^ 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1 Archived November 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.5, 3.4 (accessed 13 January 2012)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Tables B.3 and B.4
- ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1, part 1 Archived November 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20 (accessed 6 April 2009)