Woreta (also transliterated as Wereta) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in 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 ...

of the Amhara Region, east of

Lake Tana Lake Tana ( am, ጣና ሐይቅ, T’ana ḥāyik’i; previously Tsana) is the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile. Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately long and wid ...

and south of Addis Zemen, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1828 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of

Fogera Fogera (Amharic: ፎገራ) is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Fogera is part of the Debub Gondar Zone. The district is bordered on the south by Dera, on the west by Lake Tana on the north by the Reb which separates it from Kemekem, on the ...

woreda.

History

Wereta appears in the ''Royal chronicles'' during the first reign of Emperor Tekle Giyorgis (1779-1784), as the place whence ''

Ras Ras or RAS may refer to: Arts and media * RAS Records Real Authentic Sound, a reggae record label * Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol, a south Tyrolese public broadcasting service * Rás 1, an Icelandic radio station * Rás 2, an Icelandic radio stati ...

Hailu Eshte Hailu (Amharic: ኃይሉ) is a male name of Ethiopian origin that may refer to: *Hailu Shawul (born 1936), Ethiopian engineer and the chairman of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy *Hailu Tekle Haymanot (1868–1950), Ethiopian army commander ...

fled after escaping imprisonment in Gondar. Wereta was included as one of the stages of the Gondar- Boso trade route of the 1840s, located immediately south of the Reb River, according to a list compiled by Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie in his ''Geodesie d'Ethiopie''. 20th Century In 1967, telephone service reached Wereta, and in 1978, the town received electricity. In the 1990s, a new campus for the

Wereta College of Agriculture Woreta (also transliterated as Wereta) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, east of Lake Tana and south of Addis Zemen, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1828 meters ...

was designed by National Consultants (chief architect Assefa Bekele), with a proposed budget of 60 million Birr. Located on top of a hill next to the road to Bahir Dar, the college has a capacity of 2000 students and graduated 269 students in 2004. Wereta has two elementary schools, one high school, as well as vocational schools.

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, Wereta has an estimated total population of 26,317, of whom 13,044 were males and 13,273 were females.CSA 2005 National Statistics
Table B.4 Previously, the 1994 census reported the town had a total population of 15,181 of whom 6,863 were males and 8,313 were females.

Notes

Populated places in the Amhara Region Populated places on Lake Tana {{Amhara-geo-stub