Sela Dingay

Sela Dingay
Town
Sela Dingay is located in Ethiopia
Sela Dingay
Sela Dingay
Location in Ethiopia
Coordinates: 9°58′N 39°38′E / 9.967°N 39.633°E / 9.967; 39.633
CountryEthiopia
RegionAmhara
ZoneSemien Shewa
Elevation
2,880 m (9,450 ft)
Population
 (2005)
 • Total2,707 (est)
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Sela Dingay is a town in central Ethiopia. In Amharic the name means the sharpened stone, named for a rock which rolled over the edge of the southern rim of the gorge of the Mofar River, and killed a group of people sitting on it.[1] Located in the Semien Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 09°58′N 39°38′E / 9.967°N 39.633°E / 9.967; 39.633 with elevations variously given as 2880 and 2915 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Mojana Wadera woreda.

  1. ^ Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842, (London, 1843), pp. 294f