Tsegede

Coordinates: 13°30′N 37°10′E / 13.500°N 37.167°E / 13.500; 37.167
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Tsegede
ጸገዴ
Zone
Western
Area
 • Total4,253.48 km2 (1,642.28 sq mi)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total103,852

Tsegede (Tigrinya: ጸገዴ) is a woreda in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, named after the historic province of Tsegede. Located in the Western Zone of Tigray, Tsegede is bordered on the south and west by the Amhara Region, on the northwest by Kafta Humera, and on the north by Welkait. The administrative center of this woreda is Ketema Nigus. Other towns in Tsegede include Dansha and Idaga Hamus.[citation needed]

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 96.47% reporting that as their religion, while 3.49% of the population were Muslim.[1]

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 59,846, of whom 30,282 were men and 29,564 were women; 187 or 0.31% of its population were urban dwellers. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Tsegede were the

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 3.78% were Muslim. Concerning education, 2.64% of the population were considered literate, which is less than the Zone average of 9.01%; 3.11% of children aged 7–12 were in primary school, which is less than the Zone average of 11.34%; a negligible number of the children aged 13–14 were in junior secondary school, which is also less than the Zone average of 0.65%; and a negligible number of children aged 15–18 were in senior secondary school, which is less than the Zone average of 0.51%. Concerning sanitary conditions, none of the urban houses and about 11% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; none of the urban and about 4% of all houses had toilet facilities.[2]

Tsegede was selected by the

Birr in infrastructure development.[6]

Agriculture

A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 15,632 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 1.23 hectares of land. Of the 19,232 hectares of private land surveyed, 88.64% was under cultivation, 2.41% pasture, 7% fallow, 14 hectares in

gesho. 87.57% of the farmers both raised crops and livestock, while 6.17% only grew crops and 6.26% only raised livestock. Land tenure in this woreda is distributed amongst 86.48% owning their land, 12.6% renting, and 0.92% holding their land under other forms of tenure.[7]

2020 woreda reorganisation

In 2020 woreda Tsegede became inoperative and its territory belongs to the following new woredas:[citation needed]

  • Tsegede (new, smaller, woreda)
  • Dansha woreda

Notes

  1. ^ Census 2007 Tables: Tigrai Region, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5 and 3.4.
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ "Resettlement 2003" Archived 2008-02-29 at the Wayback Machine, Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA) (accessed 26 November 2006)
  4. ^ "Resettlement 2004" Archived 2008-02-27 at the Wayback Machine, DPPA (accessed 26 November 2006)
  5. Walta Information Center
    (WIC)
  6. ^ "Close to 69mln birr infrastructural dev't works carried out in resettlement sites in Amhara state" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine (WIC)
  7. ^ "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)

13°30′N 37°10′E / 13.500°N 37.167°E / 13.500; 37.167

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