Lay Armachiho
ላይ አርማጭሆ | |
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| Zone | Semien Gondar |
| Region | Amhara |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,059.33 km2 (409.01 sq mi) |
| Population (2012 est.)[2] | |
• Total | 171,867[1] |
Lay Armachiho (Amharic: ላይ አርማጭሆ, romanized: lāy ārmāčihō, lit. 'Upper Armachiho') is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. This woreda is named after "Armachiho", a province in northwestern Ethiopia along the border with Sudan and south of the Tekezé River.[3] Part of the Semien Gondar Zone, Lay Armachiho is bordered on the south by Dembiya, on the west by Chilga, on the north by Tach Armachiho, on the east by Wegera, and on the southeast by Gondar Zuria. The administrative center of this woreda is Tekle Dingay.
Lay Armachiho was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as an area for voluntary resettlement for farmers from overpopulated areas in the fourth round of resettlement program. Along with Qwara and Dangila in the Amhara Region, and Tsegede in the Tigray Region, this woreda became the new home for 8,671 families.[4] This round of resettlement was reportedly accompanied with almost 68 million Birr in infrastructure development.[5]
- ^ "GeoHive - Ethiopia population statistics". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05.
- ^ a b Geohive: Ethiopia Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Antony Mockler uses this name in this sense in his book, Haile Selassie's War (New York: Olive Branch Press, 2003)
- ^ "More than 15,500 households resettled in Amhara, SNNP and Oromia states" Walta Information Center (WIC)
- ^ "Close to 69mln birr infrastructural dev't works carried out in resettlement sites in Amhara state" (WIC)