Finicha'a
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Finicha'a (also transliterated Finchawa) is a town in western Ethiopia. Located in the Misraq Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an altitude of 1302 meters above sea level. Finicha'a hosts an airport (ICAO code HAFN, IATA code FNH) which consists of an unpaved airstrip about 1480 meters in length. It is the administrative center of Abay Chomen woreda.
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 11,134 of whom 5,351 were males and 5,783 were females.[1] The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 6,233 of whom 2,902 were males and 3,331 were females.
Finicha'a is near the Finicha'a dam, which was inaugurated by Emperor Haile Selassie in November 1973. At the time the dam was the largest hydro-electric project in the country, built at a cost of over Birr 81 million and with a power output of 84,000 kilowatts, more than the joint output of the other four power stations which existed at the time.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
- ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 11 December 2007)
This article about a location in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
