Dinsho
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Dinsho (also called Gurie) is a village in south-central Ethiopia. Located in the Bale Zone of the Oromia Region in the heart of the Bale Mountains, this village has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 3207 meters.
The headquarters of Bale Mountains National Park is situated a few kilometers outside of Dinsho, along with the Scandinavian style lodge built in the early 1990s. It replaced the previous guest house, built by a Belgian sheep-herder, which had burned down in November, 1982. As of 2000, the town has no electricity.[1]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Dinsho has an estimated total population of 3,609 of whom 1,772 were males and 1,837 were females.[2] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 2,019 of whom 961 were males and 1,058 were females. It is one of two towns in Sinanana Dinsho woreda.
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- ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 6 September 2007)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
