Why visit Werota
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About Werota
Woreta (also transliterated as Wereta) 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 11°55′N 37°42′E with an elevation of 1828 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Fogera woreda.
From the Wikipedia article Wereta (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Restaurants and cafes2
Masha allah muslim restaurant
Restaurant · Ethiopian · 1.0 km
Bahir Dar - Gonder Road
Where to stay1
History
Wereta appears in the Royal chronicles during the first reign of Emperor Tekle Giyorgis (1779-1784), as the place whence Ras Hailu Eshte fled after escaping imprisonment in Gondar.
Wereta was included as one of the stages of the Gondar-Boso trade route of the 1840s, located immediately south of the Reb River, according to a list compiled by Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie in his Geodesie d'Ethiopie.
In 1967, telephone service reached Wereta, and in 1978, the town received electricity.
In the 1990s, a new campus for the Wereta College of Agriculture was designed by National Consultants (chief architect Assefa Bekele), with a proposed budget of 60 million Birr. Located on top of a hill next to the road to Bahir Dar, the college has a capacity of 2000 students and graduated 269 students in 2004.
Wereta has two elementary schools, one high school, as well as vocational schools.
From the History section of Wereta on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Werota
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Getting there and nearby towns
Debre Tabor Airport (DBT) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 34 km away.
- Ādīs Zemen 24 km north, about 24 min by car
- Debre Tabor 35 km east, about 35 min by car
- Ibnat 45 km northeast, about 45 min by car
- Bahir Dar 49 km southwest, about 49 min by car
- T’īs Isat 50 km south, about 50 min by car
- Maksenyit 54 km north, about 54 min by car
- K’ola Diba 70 km northwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Ādēt 76 km south, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Gonder 80 km north, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Mer’āwī 80 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.
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- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- White-backed Vulture eating dog, Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ISS053-E-333188 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS053-E-335156 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
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