Kalu (woreda)

Coordinates: 11°00′N 39°50′E / 11.000°N 39.833°E / 11.000; 39.833
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Kalu (

Debub Wollo Zone, Kalu is bordered on the west by Dessie Zuria, on the north by Were Babu, on the south and east by the Oromia Zone, on the southeast by Argobba special woreda, and on the southwest by Abuko. The administrative center for this woreda is Harbu; other towns in Kalu include Ancharo
, Gerba, and Degan. A highway linking Kombolcha and Afar bisects Kalu to two parts.

Overview

The altitude of this woreda ranges from 800 metres above sea level in the lowlands bordering the Oromia Zone to 1,750 metres at the foot of the mountains north of Kombolcha; the climate of Kalu varies from dry sub-humid to semi-arid. Important rivers include the Cheleleka and Borkana.[1] Forested area includes Yegof forest, 180 square kilometres of native trees and plantations of exotic species covering the steep slopes of Mount Yegof northeast of Kombolcha, which regenerated after the 1973-1974 famine.[2]

In 2002, a number of

kebeles were taken from Kalu and Dessie Zuria to create the new woreda of Abuko.[3] Argobba special woreda
was separated from Kalu. Pottery shards were recovered from tombs near Atatiya in Harbu, pointing to the presence of the
Kingdom of Axum as far south as the area this woreda now covers.[4]

Demographics

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.[5]

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 170,523 in 34,681 households, of whom 85,326 were men and 85,197 were women; 9,897 or 5.8% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Kalu was the

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ "Ethiopia: Coping with Climate Change" Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine Global Environment Funding Proposal (dated 6 November 2006), p. 15. (last accessed 25 June 2007)
  2. ^ "Important Bird Area factsheet: Yegof forest, Ethiopia", BirdLife International website (accessed 2 September 2009)
  3. ^ Svein Ege, "South Shäwa 1:100,000. Topographic and administrative map of South Shäwa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia"[permanent dead link] (Trondheim, 2004), p. 4 (accessed 19 April 2009)
  4. ^ Aklilu Asfaw, "A short History of the Argobba", Annales d'Éthiopie, 16 (2000), p. 177
  5. ^ Census 2007 Tables: Amhara Region Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4.
  6. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Amhara Region, Vol. 1, part 1, Tables 2.1, 2.7, 2.10, 2.13, 2.17, Annex II.2 (accessed 9 April 2009)

Further reading

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