Damot Weyde

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Damot Weyde is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Omo Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Damot Weyde is bordered on the south by Humbo, on the west by Sodo Zuria, on the northwest by Damot Gale, on the north by the Hadiya Zone, on the northeast by the Oromia Region, and on the east by the Bilate River which separates it from the Sidama Zone. Towns in Damot Weyde include Bedesa and Dimtu.

This woreda covers part of the homeland of the Welayta people.

Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 212,341, of whom 107,281 were males and 105,060 were females; 6,885 or 3.24% of its population are urban dwellers, which is less than the Zone average of 8.5%. With an estimated area of 783.44 square kilometers, Damot Weyde has an estimated population density of 271 people per square kilometer, which is greater than the Zone average of 156.5.^[1]