Finca'a (also transliterated Fincaawaa) is a town in western

Oromia Oromia (Amharic: ) ( om, Oromiyaa) is a regional state in Ethiopia and the homeland of the Oromo people. The capital of Oromia is Addis Ababa. It is bordered by the Somali Region to the east; the Amhara Region, the Afar Region and the Benish ...

. Located in the

Horo Guduru Welega Zone Horo Guduru Welega ( om, Walllaga Horroo Guduruu) is a zone in Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the former province of Welega, whose eastern part lay in the area Horo Guduru Welega now occupies. Horo Guduru Welega was formed of wored ...

of the

, Ethiopia. This town has a latitude and longitude of with an altitude of 2302 meters above sea level. Finicha'a hosts an

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(

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code HAFN,

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code FNH) which consists of an unpaved airstrip about 1480 meters in length. It is the administrative center of

Abay Chomen Abay Chomen is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Horo Gudru Welega Zone, Abay Chomen is bordered on the south by Lake Finicha'a (created when Finicha'a Dam flooded the Chomen swamp), on the southwest by Jimma Horo, ...

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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Finca'a is near the Finca'a Dam, which was inaugurated by Emperor

Haile Selassie Haile Selassie I ( gez, ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, Qädamawi Häylä Səllasé, ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (' ...

in November 1973. At the time the dam was the largest hydro-electric project in the country, built at a cost of over Birr 81 million and with a power output of 84 MW, more than the combined output of the other four power stations which existed at the time. The hydroelectric power plant was overhauled in March 1999 by the

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at a cost of US $3 million, increasing its hydroelectric capacity to 100 MW. Previously Finca'a was a location of

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for the endangered African wild dog, ''Lycaon pictus'', but that canid is thought to be extirpated from the region due to human population expansion.

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 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 11,134 of whom 5,351 are men and 5,783 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
, Table B.4 The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 6,233 of whom 2,902 were men and 3,331 were women.

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