Mecha Zuria | |
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| Zone | Mirab Gojjam |
| Region | Amhara |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,481.64 km2 (572.06 sq mi) |
| Population (2012 est.) | |
| • Total | 317,963 [1] |
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Mecha (formerly known as Merawi) is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The name, Mecha, is taken from the name for a subdivision of the province of Gojjam. Part of the Mirab Gojjam Zone, Mecha is bordered on the south by Sekela, on the southwest by the Agew Awi Zone, on the west by the Lesser Abay River which separates it from Debub Achefer and Semien Achefer, on the northeast by Bahir Dar Zuria, and on the east by Yilmana Densa. Towns in Mecha include Merawi and Wetet Abay.
Bodies of water in this woreda include Tingiti, which is located in a volcanic crater near the Lesser Abay; R.E. Cheesman believed he was the first European to see this body of water when he was shown it in November 1932.[2]
- ^ a b Geohive: Ethiopia Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ R.E. Cheesman, "Lake Tana and Its Islands", Geographical Journal, 85 (1935), p. 492