Mieso, Oromia (woreda)

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For the woreda in the Somali Region, see Mieso, Somali (woreda).

Mieso is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mirab Hararghe Zone, Mieso is bordered on the south by Guba Koricha, on the west by the Afar Region, on the north by the Somali Region, on the east by Doba and on the southeast by Chiro. Towns in Mieso include Arba Bordode, Asabot, Kora, Mieso and Mulu.

Local points of interest in Mieso woreda include the Monastery of Asabot Selassie, located at the top of Asabot Mountain, 20 kilometers northeast of the town of Asabot.[1] It was in this woreda where Emperor Iyasu V, hurrying back to the capital city of Addis Ababa to deal with a palace coup, was defeated by the plotters in October, 1916.[2] In the 1950s, the woreda was one of the about fifteen most important cotton production areas in Ethiopia outside of Eritrea.[3]

Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 137,126, of whom 66,553 were males and 70,573 were females; 36,165 or 26.37% of its population are urban dwellers, which is greater than the Zone average of 9.6%. With an estimated area of 2,573.44 square kilometers, Mieso has an estimated population density of 53.3 people per square kilometer, which is less than the Zone average of 101.8.[4]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Philip Briggs, Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide, 3rd edition (Chalfont St Peters: Bradt, 2002), p. 351
  2. ^ Henze, Paul B. (2000). Layers of Time, A History of Ethiopia. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 0-312-22719-1. 
  3. ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 11 December 2007)
  4. ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables B.3 and B.4
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