Goro Gutu
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Overview
The altitude of this District ranges from 1200 to 2660 meters above sea level; other notable elevations include Mount Gangilo. Rivers include the Erer, Usman Ejersa and Burka. A survey of the land in Goro Gutu (released in 1994–95) shows that 20.3% is arable or cultivable, 19.9% pasture and forest, and the remaining 59.8% is considered built-up, degraded or otherwise unusable. Khat, vegetables and fruits are important cash crops.[1] Although coffee is also an important cash crop for this District, only between 20 and 50 square kilometers are planted with it.[2]
Industry in the District includes 15
In October 2004, a referendum was held in about 420
Demographics
The 2007 national census reported a total population for this District of 143,931, of whom 73,530 were men and 70,401 were women; 10,066 or 6.99% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants said they were
Based on figures published by the
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this District of 105,719, of whom 53,717 were men and 52,002 women; 4,333 or 4.1% of its population were urban dwellers at the time. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Goro Gutu were the
Notes
- ^ a b Socio-economic profile of the East Hararghe Zone Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 1 August 2006)
- ^ "Coffee Production" Oromia Coffee Cooperative Union website
- ^ "Somali-Oromo border referendum of December 2004" Archived 2009-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre website (accessed 11 February 2009)
- ^ "Relief Bulletin: 28 February 2005", UN-OCHA-Ethiopia (accessed 26 February 2009)
- ^ 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1 Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.5, 3.4 (accessed 13 January 2012)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived 2006-11-23 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 2009-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20 (accessed 6 April 2009)