Gebre Guracha
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Gebre Guracha (also known as Kuyu) is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation between 2515 and 2547 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Kuyu woreda.
This town has had telephone service at least as early as 1967.[1]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Gebre Guracha has an estimated total population of 19,830 of whom 9,184 were males and 10,646 were females.[2] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 11,113 of whom 4,981 were males and 6,132 were females.
Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a primary school in Gebre Guracha in the year 1968.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 27 May 2008)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
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