Bedele
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Bedele (also called Buno Bedele) is a town in southwestern Ethiopia. Located in the Illubabor Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of and an elevation between 2012 and 2162 meters above sea level.
The road to Agaro, 96 km long, was completed in 1968 at a cost of 12 million dollars (Ethiopian), by the French company Razel Frères. Construction on a road to Metu began around 1970.[1]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Bedele has an estimated total population of 21,289 of whom 10,556 were males and 10,733 were females.[2] The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 11,907 of whom 5,725 were males and 6,182 were females. It is the larger of two towns in Bedele woreda.
Ras Tessema Nadew made his capital near Bedele in the early 1900s. Henry Savage Landor passed through the town in 1906. The Buno Bedele Health Center was built in 1966 with a majority of Swedish donations.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 16 November 2007)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
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