Guduru (woreda)
Guduru (also transliterated Gudru or Goodroo) is a
Menelik defeated the Gojjame army, capturing Negus Tekle Haymanot and establishing a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay.[2]
Part of the
Mirab Shewa Zone. The administrative center is Guduru. Hababo Guduru
woreda was separated from Guduru.
Overview
The highest point in this woreda is
rape seed.[3]
Industry in the woreda includes 27
edible oil mills; there is evidence that construction materials like gravel are also extracted in this woreda. There were 36 Farmers Associations with 14,036 members and 15 Service Cooperatives with 12,898 members. Guduru has 30 kilometers of dry weather road and 30 kilometers of all-weather, for an average of road density of 25.03 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers. About 12.6% of the total population has access to drinking water.[3]
Demographics
The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 98,084, of whom 48,848 were men and 49,236 were women; 6,504 or 6.63% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 4% observed traditional beliefs.[4]
Based on figures published by the
Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 151,638, of whom 76,905 are men and 74,733 are women; 7,249 or 4.78% of its population are urban dwellers, which is less than the Zone average of 13.9%. With an estimated area of 2,397.50 square kilometers, Guduru has an estimated population density of 63.2 people per square kilometer, which is less than the Zone average of 81.4.[5]
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 109,148, of whom 54,085 were men and 55,061 women; 4,059 or 3.72% of its population were urban dwellers at the time. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Guduru were the
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 8.1% were Protestant.[6]
Notes
- ^ Mohammed Hassen, The Oromo of Ethiopia: A history 1570-1860 (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 1994), pp. 94-96.
- ^ See, for example, Alessandro Triulzi, "Nekemte and Addis Abeba: dilemmas of provincial rule", in The Southern marches of Ethiopia, Donald L. Donham and Wendy James, editors (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), pp. 49ff
- ^ a b Socio-economic profile of the East Wellega Zone Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 1 August 2006). Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1, Tables 2.1, 2.5, 3.4 (accessed 13 January 2012) Archived November 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables B.3 and B.4 Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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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