Wereta

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subdivision_name1 = Amhara
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subdivision_name2 = Debub Gondar Zone
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Wereta (also transliterated as Woreta) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, east of Lake Tana and south of Addis Zemen, this town has a latitude and longitude of coord|11|55|N|37|42|E| with an elevation of 1828 meters above sea level.

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Wereta has an estimated total population of 26,317, of whom 13,044 were males and 13,273 were females. [ [http://www.csa.gov.et/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics] , Table B.4] The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 15,181 of whom 6,863 were males and 8,313 were females. It is one of four settlements in Kemekem woreda.

Telephone service had reached Wereta by 1967. In the 1990s, a new campus for the Woreta College of Agriculture was designed by National Consultants (chief architect Assefa Bekele), with a proposed budget of 60 million Birr. [ [http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/vw/ORTWEN.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 20 December 2007)]

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