Robe, Arsi (Ethiopia)

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For the town in the Bale Zone, see Robe, Bale (Ethiopia).

Robe is a town in southeastern Ethiopia, named after the nearby Robe River. Located in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 09°36′N, 39°08′E with an elevation of 2435 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Robe woreda.

According to the Oromia Regional government, this town currently has telephone and postal service, and is supplied with electricity for four hours a day from a diesel generator.^[1] A market is held on Mondays. A notable local landmark is the prison farm, which existed as early as 1961, and in the 1980s housed 850 prisoners.^[2]

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Robe has an estimated total population of 17,144 of whom 8,200 were males and 8,944 were females.^[3] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 9,599 of whom 4,447 were males and 5,152 were females.

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1. ^ Socio-economic profile of Arsi Zone, Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 19 January 2008)
2. ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 28 January 2008)
3. ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4