Hulet Ej Enese is one of the

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 ...

s in the

Amhara Region The Amhara Region ( am, አማራ ክልል, Åmara Kilil), officially the Amhara National Regional State (), is a regional state in northern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Amhara people. Its capital is Bahir Dar which is the seat of the Reg ...

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 ...

. Part of the

Misraq Gojjam Zone East Gojjam (Amharic: ምሥራቅ ጎጃም), also called Misraq Gojjam, is a zone in Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Its capital is Debre Markos. East Gojjam is named after the former province of Gojjam. East Gojjam is bordered on the south by t ...

, it is bordered on the south by

Debay Telatgen Debay Telatgen is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq Gojjam Zone, Debay Telatgen is bordered on the extreme south by Dejen, on the southwest by Awabel, on the west by Sinan, on the northwest by Bibugn, on the ...

, on the west by Bibugn and Goncha, on the northwest by the

Mirab Gojjam Zone West Gojjam (Amharic: ምዕራብ ጎጃም) or Mirab Gojjam is a Zone in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the former province of Gojjam. West Gojjam is bordered on the south by the Abay River which separates it from the Oromia ...

, on the north by the

Abay River Abay may refer to: People *Abay (name) Places * Abay District, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan * Abay District, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan **Abay (town), the province's administrative center * Abay, Almaty, Kazakhstan * Abay, Aktobe, a village ...

(which separates it from the

Debub Gondar Zone South Gondar (Amharic: ደቡብ ጎንደር) (or Debub Gondar) is a Zone in the Ethiopian Amhara Region. This zone is named for the city of Gondar, which was the capital of Ethiopia until the mid-19th century, and has often been used as a name ...

), on the east by Goncha Siso Enese, and on the southeast by

Enarj Enawga Enarj Enawga ( Amharic: እናርጅ እናውጋ) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq Gojjam Zone, Enarj Enawga is bordered on the south by Enemay, on the southwest by Debay Telatgen, on the west by Hulet Ej ...

. Among the towns in this administrative division are Keraniyo,

Mota Mota, MOTA or variations thereof may refer to: Geography * Mota (island), Vanuatu * Mota, Ethiopia, a town * Mota, Gujarat, India, a town * Mota, Ljutomer, Slovenia, a village Music * ''M.O.T.A.'' (album), a 2005 album by Cultura Profética * "M ...

and

Sede Sede may refer to: People * Gérard de Sède * Marc Dion Sédé (born 1987), Ivorian football player Places * Sede, Ethiopia * Sede, district of Santa Maria Sede ("Seat") is a district of the municipality of Santa Maria, in the Brazilian stat ...

. Rivers in Hulet Ej Enese include the Tammi, a tributary of the Abay. The ''Sabero Dilde'' (also known as the "Second Portuguese Bridge" or the "Broken Bridge") crosses the Abay here, connecting Hulet Ej Enese with andabet woreda , a woreda in Debub Gondar.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 national 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 275,638, an increase of 38.27% over the 1994 census, of whom 137,382 are men and 138,256 women; 30,594 or 11.10% are urban inhabitants. With an area of 1,496.69 square kilometers, Hulet Ej Enese has a population density of 184.17, which is greater than the Zone average of 153.8 persons per square kilometer. A total of 64,272 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.29 persons to a household, and 62,477 housing units. The majority of the inhabitants practiced

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( am, የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን, ''Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan'') is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. One of the few Chris ...

, with 95.3% reporting that as their religion, while 4.66% of the population said they were

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

. The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 199,352 in 39,245 households, of whom 99,829 were men and 99,523 were women; 20,554 or 10.31% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Hulet Ej Enese was the Amhara (99.93%). The majority of the inhabitants practiced

, with 93.37% reporting that as their religion, while 6.55% were

.''1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Amhara Region'', Vol. 1, part 1
, Tables 2.1, 2.7, 2.10, 2.17, Annex II.2 (accessed 9 April 2009)

Notes

Districts of Amhara Region {{Amhara-geo-stub