Metehara
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Town | |
  Metehara Location within Ethiopia | |
| Coordinates: 8°54′N 39°55′E / 8.900°N 39.917°E | |
| Country |  Ethiopia |
| Region |  Oromia |
| Zone | East Shewa |
| Elevation | 947 m (3,107 ft) |
| Population (2005) | |
• Total | 21,348 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Metehara (Amharic: መተሐራ, Oromo: Mataharaa) is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the East Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, it has a latitude and longitude of 08°54′N 39°55′E / 8.900°N 39.917°E with an elevation of 947 meters above sea level.
Access to Metehara includes a station on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway. There is a Tuesday livestock market.[1] Notable local landmarks include Metehara Mikael Bet church, Mount Fentale to the north, Awash National Park to the northeast, and Lake Basaka to the south of the town.
The town is inhabited by the Karrayyu Oromo, Afar, Somali Dir clans (Issa and Gadabuursi) and Amhara.[2][3]
- ^ "Afar and Kereyu pastoralists in and around Awash National Park struggle with deteriorating livelihood conditions" UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia, July 2002, p. 8 (accessed 14 January 2009)
- ^ Negatu, Workneh; Research, Addis Ababa University Institute of Development; Center, University of Wisconsin--Madison Land Tenure; Foundation, Ford (2004-01-01). Proceedings of the Workshop on Some Aspects of Rural Land Tenure in Ethiopia: Access, Use, and Transfer. IDR/AAU. p. 43.
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- ^ Gebre, Ayalew (2004). "When Pastoral Commons are privatised: Resource Deprivation and Changes in Land Tenure Systems among the Karrayu in the Upper Awash Valley Region of Ethiopia" (PDF).