Lemi is a town in central

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 the

North Shewa Zone North is one of the four compass points The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directi ...

of the Amhara Region, about 125 kilometers north of

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 ...

on the paved way to

Alem Ketema Alem Ketema ( Amharic: ዓለም ከተማ) is a town in North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. It is the administrative centre of Merhabete woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas ( am, ወረዳ; ''woreda''), are the third leve ...

. Its 1994 population was 2,789. Lemi is a capital of

Ensaro Ensaro (Amharic: እንሳሮ) is a woreda in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Shewa Zone, Ensaro is bordered on the south and west by the Oromia Region, on the north by the Jamma River which separates it from Merhabiete, on the no ...

wereda 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 ...

. Lemi was founded by ras Andarge. The main Lemi

economy An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

and

trade Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...

. About 70% of Lemi's rainfall occurs in July and August each year, with the rest of the year being largely dry.

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Populated places in the Amhara Region {{Amhara-geo-stub