Aura is a

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 ...

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. Part of the Administrative Zone 4, Aura is bordered on the southwest by

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, on the west by

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, on the north by

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, and on the east by Administrative Zone 1; the

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defines part of its southeastern boundary. The largest settlement in Aura is Derayitu.

Overview

The average elevation in this woreda is 459 meters above sea level. As of 2008, Awra has 65 kilometers of dry-weather road; about 29.02% of the total population has access to drinking water. A notable landmark in Awra is the plain of Karbahi, the location of two recent fissure eruptions, one on 12 August 2007 and more recently 29 June 2009. This is one incident in the separation of continental plates in the

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. The eruptions at Karbahi are being studied by the Afar Rift Consortium, a joint project of geologists in

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working with other scientists in U.S., France and New Zealand, and most importantly, Ethiopia.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by 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 ...

of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 34,604, of whom 18,999 are men and 15,605 women; with an area of 2,317.86 square kilometers, Awra has a population density of 14.93. While 1,651 or 4.77% are urban inhabitants, a further 22,140 or 63.98% are pastoralists. A total of 6,394 households were counted in this woreda, which results in an average of 5.4 persons to a household, and 6,507 housing units. 99.46% of the population said they were

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.Census 2007 Tables: Afar Region
, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4.

Notes

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