Areka ( Ge'ez: አረካ) is city in southern

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. Located in some 300 kilometres southwest of the capital,

Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...

. This town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 1774 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of

Boloso Sore Boloso Sore is a woreda in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia. Part of the Wolayita Zone, Boloso Sore is bordered on the south by Sodo Zuria and Damot Sore, on the west by Boloso Bombe, on the northeast by the Kembata T ...

woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas ( am, ወረዳ; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''zones'' and the '' regional states''. These districts are further subdivided into a number of ...

. Areka is served by a sub-office of the Ethiopian postal service. Areka was founded in 1959, and a primary school opened in the town in 1962. The

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR'')http://www.eiar.gov.et/ is a research institute for agricultural study in Ethiopia. has evolved through several stages since its initiation during the late 1940s, following the establishmen ...

opened a center in Areka in 1985 dedicated to improving the yield of

enset ''Ensete ventricosum'', commonly known as enset or ensete, Ethiopian banana, Abyssinian banana, pseudo-banana, false banana and wild banana, is an herbaceous species of flowering plant in the banana family Musaceae. The domesticated form of ...

Demographics

Based on figures from the

Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency (CSA; Amharic: ማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ) is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social growth ...

in 2020, this town has an estimated total population of 80,693 of whom 38,880 are men and 41,813 are women

Climate

Areka features a Tropical Savanna Climate with average rainfall reaches 1290 mm.

Notes

Wolayita Populated places in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region Cities and towns in Wolayita Zone {{SouthernNationsET-geo-stub