Hintalo Wajirat

Coordinates: 13°10′N 39°40′E / 13.167°N 39.667°E / 13.167; 39.667
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Hintalo Wajirat
ሒንጣሎ ዋጂራት
Debub Misraqawi (Southeastern)
Area
 • Total2,864.79 km2 (1,106.10 sq mi)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total153,505

Hintalo Wajirat (

Enderta, and on the east by the Afar Region. Other towns in Hintalo Wajirat include Adi Gudem, and Bahri Tseba.[1]

History

Enderta province when Enderta was an independent province as well as an awraja as recent as the late 1990s,[2][3]

As of early 2020, woreda Hintalo-Wajirat became inoperative and its territory belongs to the following new woredas:[citation needed]

  • Hintalo (new, smaller, woreda)
  • Wajirat woreda
  • Adi Gudom
    town

Overview

High points in this woreda include

Amda Seyon. The remaining ten rock-pillars and four chambers with roofs made of oval-shaped brick attest to the splendid nature of the building in its heyday.[4]

On 7 May 2009, the

Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation and the French Agence Française de Développement signed a financing agreement amounting to 210 million Euros to build the Ashegoda Wind Power Project, located 20 kilometers southwest of Mekelle. This plant would have an installation capacity of 120 MW, along with an annual energy production of 400 to 450 GwH. The project timeline stated that the first phase would take 16 months to complete and yield 30 MW, while the entire project, which will be in three phases, would be finalized in 36 months.[5] The project was completed at the end of October, 2013. Wind farm has 84 turbines with capacity of 120 MW making it biggest wind farm of Ethiopia.[6]

Demographics

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the

Orthodox Christians, and 1.14% were Muslim.[7]

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 110,926, of whom 54,601 were men and 56,325 were women; 9,903 or 8.93% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Hintalo Wajirat was the

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 1.39% were Muslim. Concerning education, 9.12% of the population were considered literate, which is less than the Zone average of 15.71%; 10.59% of children aged 7–12 were in primary school; 0.63% of the children aged 13–14 were in junior secondary school; and 0.19% of the inhabitants aged 15–18 were in senior secondary school. Concerning sanitary conditions, about 69% of the urban houses and 14% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; about 7% of the urban and about 3% of the total had toilet facilities.[8]

Reservoirs

In this district with rains that last only for a couple of months per year, reservoirs of different sizes allow harvesting runoff from the rainy season for further use in the dry season. The reservoirs of the district include:

Overall, these reservoirs suffer from rapid

seepage; the positive side-effect is that this contributes to groundwater recharge.[11]

Surrounding woredas

References

  1. ^ http://etd.aau.edu.et/bitstream/handle/123456789/4590/Gebru%20Kahsay%20Kiflu.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  2. ^ Ethiopian Mapping Authority, 1997
  3. ^ Sarah Vaughan, "Ethnicity and Power in Ethiopia", PhD dissertation, p. 123, 2003
  4. ^ "Churches Around Mekelle", Tigrai Net, published 5 February 2010 (accessed 17 September 2010)
  5. ^ "French Loan of over 208m Br to Swirl Ashegoda Wind Power" Addis Fortune website (accessed 11 May 2009)
  6. ^ "Ethiopia opens Africa's biggest windfarm" The Guardian website (accessed 22 October 2014)
  7. ^ Census 2007 Tables: Tigray Region Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4.
  8. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Vol. 1, part 1 Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.12, 2.19, 3.5, 3.7, 6.3, 6.11, 6.13 (accessed 30 December 2008)
  9. S2CID 199112876
    .
  10. S2CID 129834993
    .
  11. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2008.04.011
    .

13°10′N 39°40′E / 13.167°N 39.667°E / 13.167; 39.667

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