Iteya

Iteya is a town in southeastern Ethiopia. Located in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region east of Lake Zway, it has a latitude and longitude of 08°08′N 39°14′E / 8.133°N 39.233°E / 8.133; 39.233Coordinates: 08°08′N 39°14′E / 8.133°N 39.233°E / 8.133; 39.233 with an elevation of 2215 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of the Hitosa woreda.

According to the Oromia Regional government, this town currently has telephone and postal service, and is supplied with electricity from a nearby hydroelectric source.[1] Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a junior secondary school in Iteya in 1968.[2]

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Iteya has an estimated total population of 12,979 of whom 6,418 are men and 6,561 are women.[3] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 7260 of whom 3,481 were men and 3,779 were women.

Notes

  1. Socio-economic profile of Arsi Zone, Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 17 January 2008)
  2. "Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 27 May 2008)
  3. CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
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