Ancharo

Ancharo (Amharic: አንቻሮ ) also known as Curcureta is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, Ancharo has a latitude and longitude of 11°03′N 39°47′E / 11.050°N 39.783°E / 11.050; 39.783 with an elevation of 2972 meters above sea level. It is one of four towns in Kalu woreda.

The missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf, who visited Ancharo in the 1840s, described the town as one of the principal marketplaces of the Were Wallo, a "House" or a sub-group of the Wollo Oromo.^[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. 3491

[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. 3491

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