Ancharo

Ancharo (also known as Curcureta) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, Ancharo has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2972 meters above sea level. It is one of three towns in Tenta woreda.

The missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf, who visited Ancharo in the 1840s, described the town as one of the principal marketplaces of the Were Wallo, a "House" or a sub-group of the Wollo Oromo.[1]

Demographics

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Tenta has an estimated total population of 1,768 of whom 924 are men and 844 are women.[2] The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 1,015 of whom 486 were men and 529 were women.

Notes

  1. ^ Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842, (London, 1843), pp. 3491
  2. ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.3