Diga Leka

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Diga Leka is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq Welega Zone, Diga Leka is bordered on the south by an exclave of the Benishangul-Gumaz Region, on west by the Didessa River which separates it from the Illubabor Zone on the southwest and the Mirab Welega Zone on the west, on the north by Sasiga, on the northeast by Guto Wayu and on the southeast by Jimma Arjo. The woreda capital is Gatama; other towns in Diga Leka include Arjo Gudetu and Diga.

The landscape of this woreda is rugged, dominated by Mount Botoro Kofo and Mount Boti Duguma. Rivers within the woreda include the Negesso, Jato, Beseka, Abono, Gebo, Medale, Dimtu and Jima Rivers. A survey of the land in this woreda shows that 59.7% is arable or cultivable (68% was under annual crops), 23% pasture, 6.1% forest, and the remainder is 11.2%. Chat is one important cash crop.^[1]. Although Coffee is another important cash crop, less than 2,000 hectares is planted in this woreda with this crop.^[2]

Industry in the woreda includes 16 grain mills; coal and clay are also present. There were 21 Farmers Associations with 18,590 members and 10 Farmers Service Cooperatives with 89,590 members. Limmu has 89 kilometers of all-weather road, for an average of road density of 70.47 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers. About 15% of the total population has access to drinking water.^[3]

Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 140,282, of whom 72,392 were males and 67,890 were females; 10,652 or 7.59% of its population are urban dwellers, which is greater than the Zone average of 13.9%. With an estimated area of 1,263.28 square kilometers, Diga Leka has an estimated population density of 111 people per square kilometer, which is greater than the Zone average of 81.4.^[4]

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