Gamu-Gofa

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Gamu-Gofa was a province in the southwestern part of Ethiopia, named after two of the ethnic groups living within its boundaries, the Gamo and the Goffa. Its capital city was first Chencha, then around 1965 the capital was moved to Arba Minch.[1]

Gamu-Gofa was bordered on the west and north by Kaffa, on the north and east by Sidamo, on the southeast by Lake Chew Bahir, and on the south by Kenya and Lake Turkana.

With the adoption of the constitution in 1995, Gamu-Gofa was reorganized into the Semien Omo and Debub Omo Zones of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region of Ethiopia.

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