Girawa (Aanaa)

Coordinates: 8°55′N 41°40′E / 8.917°N 41.667°E / 8.917; 41.667
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Girawa (also called Girawa Meyu Mulike)(

Bedeno, on the north by Kurfa Chele, and on the east by Fedis. The administrative center of the woreda is Girawa; other towns include Megala
.

Overview

The altitude of this District ranges from 500 to 3230 meters above sea level; Geyle is the highest point; other significant peaks include Mount Gara Muleta. A survey of the land in Girawa (released in 1996) shows that 54.3% is arable or cultivable, 4.4% pasture, 1.2% forest, 21.8% built-up, and the remaining 18.3% is considered degraded or otherwise unusable. Khat, fruits and vegetables are important cash crops.[1] Coffee is also an important cash crop; over 5,000 hectares are planted with it.[2]

Industry in the District includes 14

grain mills employing 45 people, as well as 95 registered businesses including wholesalers, retailers and service providers. Deposits of feldspar, mica and amazonite are known, but they have not been developed. There were 46 Farmers Associations with 43,373 members and 4 Farmers Service Cooperatives with 4965 members. Girawa has 75 kilometers of dry-weather and 12 of all-weather road, for an average road density of 60.3 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers. About 21.8% of the urban and 3.2% of the rural population have access to drinking water.[1]

Girawa gained publicity in early April 1999, when the media learned of a bloody war between

Haile Selassie’s palace menagerie in Harar and wreaked havoc on a hyena family; since then the hyenas have sought to extract vengeance on the lions.[3]

Demographics

The 2007 national census reported a total population for this District of 240,173, of whom 121,751 were men and 118,422 were women; 5,893 or 2.45% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants said they were

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.[4]

Based on figures published by the

Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 247,992, of whom 121,416 were men and 126,576 were women; 7,767 or 3.13% of its population are urban dwellers, which is less than the Zone average of 6.9%. With an estimated area of 1,442.19 square kilometers, Girawa has an estimated population density of 172 people per square kilometer, which is greater than the Zone average of 102.6.[5]

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this District of 179,213, of whom 91,958 were men and 87,255 women; 4,340 or 2.42% of its population were urban dwellers at the time. (This total also includes an estimate for the inhabitants of one rural

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Socio-economic profile of the East Hararghe Zone Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 1 August 2006).
  2. ^ "Coffee Production" Oromia Coffee Cooperative Union website
  3. ^ Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (UNDP-EUE). "Horn of Africa, Monthly Review, March - April 1999" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17.
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Tables B.3 and B.4
  6. ^ 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)

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