Tahtay Koraro

Coordinates: 14°10′N 38°15′E / 14.167°N 38.250°E / 14.167; 38.250
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Tahtay Koraro
ታሕታይ ቆራሮ
Semien Mi'irabawi Zone
Area
 • Total1,940.38 km2 (749.18 sq mi)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total68,989

Tahtai Koraro (

Inda Selassie
is surrounded by Tahtai Koraro.

Local landmarks in this woreda includes Mai Adrasha, an archeological site showing an uninterrupted chronological range from the Pre-Axumite through the Late Axumite periods (c. 800 BC - AD 700) - an indication of the site's importance both as a long-lived habitation in the area, and as the westernmost known example of this chronological range.[1]

Demographics

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 97.72% reporting that as their religion, while 2.18% of the population follow Muslim.[2]

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 83,492, of whom 40,933 were men and 42,559 were women; 25,991 or 31.13% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Tahtai Koraro was the

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 92.27% reporting that as their religion, while 7.67% follow Muslim. Concerning education, 20.8% of the population were considered literate, which is greater than the Zone average of 9.01%; 33.01% of the children aged 7–12 were in primary school, which is greater than the Zone average of 11.34%; 3.38% of the children aged 13–14 were in junior secondary school, which is also greater than the Zone average of 0.65%; and 4.11% of the children aged 15–18 were in senior secondary school, which is greater than the Zone average of 0.51%. Concerning sanitary conditions, about 80% of the urban houses and 35% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; about 32% of the urban and 12% of all houses had toilet facilities.[3]

Agriculture

A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 13,859 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 0.85 hectares of land. Of the 11,765 hectares of private land surveyed in Tahtai Koraro, 91.76% was under cultivation, 0.68% pasture, 5.3% fallow, 0.01% woodland, and 2.25% was devoted to other uses. For the land under cultivation in this woreda, 82.94% is planted in cereals, 7.01% in pulses, 0.97% in oilseeds, and 0.42% in vegetables. Eight hectares were planted in fruit trees. 80.27% of the farmers both raise crops and livestock, while 17.99% only grow crops and 1.74% only raise livestock. Land tenure in this woreda is distributed amongst 79.65% owning their land, 18.84% renting, and those holding their land under other forms of tenure 1.5%.[4]

2020 woreda reorganisation

In 2020 woreda Tahtay Koraro was split up between:

Notes

  1. ^ Jacke Phillips and Tekle Hagos with Asfaw Arefaine, Sheila Boardman, Chester Cain, Mark Dover & Michael Harlow, "Combating the destruction of Ethiopia's archaeological heritage", Antiquity 78 No 302 (December 2004)
  2. ^ Census 2007 Tables: Tigray Region, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5 and 3.4.
  3. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Vol. 1, part 1, Tables 2.1, 2.12, 2.19, 3.5, 3.7, 6.3, 6.11, 6.13 (accessed 30 December 2008)
  4. ^ "Central Statistical Authority of Ethiopia. Agricultural Sample Survey (AgSE2001). Report on Area and Production - Tigray Region. Version 1.1 - December 2007" Archived 2009-11-14 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 26 January 2009)

14°10′N 38°15′E / 14.167°N 38.250°E / 14.167; 38.250

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