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Finca'a (also transliterated Fincaawaa) is a town in western
woreda
.
Overview
Finca'a is near the
Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation at a cost of US $3 million, increasing its hydroelectric capacity to 100 MW.[2]
Previously Finca'a was a location of habitat for the endangered African wild dog, Lycaon pictus,[3] but that canid is thought to be extirpated from the region due to human population expansion.
Demographics
Based on figures from the
Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 11,134 of whom 5,351 are men and 5,783 are women.[4]
The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 6,233 of whom 2,902 were men and 3,331 were women.
Notes
- ^ "Local History in Ethiopia"[permanent dead link] The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 11 December 2007)
- ^ "Horn of Africa, Monthly Review, March - April 1999", UN-OCHA Archive (accessed 23 February 2009)
- ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Painted Hunting Dog: Lycaon pictus, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg Archived December 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Table B.4
Further reading
- Okbazghi Yohannes. 2008. Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin: The Search for an Integrative Discourse, SUNY Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-7431-0. 256 pages