Koraro is a village in North Ethiopia's Tigray Region, located in the Hawzen woreda, near Hawzen, in a cluster of 11 villages with a total of 55,000 residents. This village is located about 16 kilometers from a dry weather road and about 54 kilometers from the main road. Due to such long distances and no communication infrastructure, Koraro is effectively isolated.
It is in an area surrounded by jagged escarpments and dusty arid land.[1] The Koraro cluster is located in a region which is one of the poorest in Ethiopia, due to a confluence of geographic, political, economic and environmental factors.[2] The 11 villages span an area of several hundred square kilometers, stitched together by extremely poor or non-existent roads, making traveling between the villages and local commercial centers, such as Hawzen and Mekelle, very difficult. Koraro is one of the most remote and isolated sites and suffers from very poor infrastructure and severe drought. The region is semiarid with a short rainy season that lasts from the end of June to the beginning of September.
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