Dimtu

Dimtu
Bilate Tena
City
Dimtu
Dimtu town
Dimtu town
Dimtu is located in Wolayita Zone
Dimtu
Dimtu
Dimtu Location within Wolayita
Dimtu is located in Ethiopia
Dimtu
Dimtu
Dimtu Location within Ethiopia
Coordinates: 6°55′N 38°6′E / 6.917°N 38.100°E / 6.917; 38.100
Country Ethiopia
Region South Ethiopia Regional State
ZoneWolaita
WoredaDiguna Fango
Government
 • MayorZekarias Wontamo
Area
 • Urban
6.48 km2 (2.50 sq mi)
Elevation
1,400 m (4,600 ft)
Population
 (2018)
 • City
25,294
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Dimtu (Ge'ez: ዲምቱ) or Wolaita Dimtu (Ge'ez: ወላይታ ዲምቱ) or Bilate Tena (Ge'ez: ብላቴ ጤና) is a city administrator in Wolayita Zone, South Ethiopia Region. It has an elevation between 1,000 and 1,600 metres above sea level. It was part of the former Damot Weyde (woreda) of Wolayita Zone, near to the Sodo Zuria woreda. It was also under the Diguna Fango woreda. Some writers mention the town as Bilate Tena in their books and journals. Among them, Getahun Garedew, former Head Officer in Education Bureau of Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, and State Minister of Ministry of Education since 2020, is the anterior. In the book Local Adaptation Practices in Response to Climate Change in the Bilate River Basin, Southern Ethiopia, he used these two names, Dimtu and Bilate Tena, in a similar way.

History

David Buxton stated in his book that Dimtu was the name of a market, and it was near the Bilate River. As unwritten source reveals that the name was derived from the word "Dantto", which in Wolaytta language means the junction. It was named so because the market is located where the Bilate River and the "Qocuwaa" River (which flows near Dimtu) meet.

Dimtu is the oldest town in the Wolaita Zone, next to Sodo, the capital of Wolaita. About 81% of the town has electricity. The roads are largely asphalt roads, and is located 333 km from Addis Ababa to the South-West, and 68 km from Sodo.

Demographics

Based on the 2018 population projection by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia, Dimtu has a total population of 25,294, of whom 15,855 are men and 9,439 are women. The majority of the inhabitants were Protestants (94.61%) and 4.10% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, 0.0076% were Muslims, and 1.28% were Catholics.

Education

Gates of Bilate Tena Secondary School

The city has Bilate Tena Primary School and Bilate Tena Secondary and Preparatory School (a middle and high school). The primary school building is older than the secondary and preparatory school, being one of the primary schools that was established in the 1940s after Haile Selassie I allowed education reform. As of a 2003 report, 400 primary schools operate in Ethiopia.

Bilate Tena Secondary and Preparatory School was established in 2009. In 2010, it was opened by Ambassador Teshome Toga, who was raised in the Dimtu area.

For the schools that are near the border, its compound has a multicultural environment and builds relationships with their neighbors, including the Sidama and Oromo people.

Climate

The city is located in lowland areas, and its temperature lies between 14 and 30°C in summer, and 8 and 24 °C in winter.

References

  1. ↑ David, BUXTON. Travels In Ethiopia. p. 66.
  2. ↑ "Admirative Map (?) of SNNPR" (PDF). Reliefweb.int/. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ Miller, Creighton J. (January 16, 2009). "Judicial Staff Directory". Reference Reviews. 23 (1): 23–24. doi:10.1108/09504120910925580. ISSN 0950-4125.
  4. 1 2 Thiemann, Stefan; Forch, Gerd (2004). "Water Resource Assessment in the Bilate River Catchment" (PDF). Uni-siegen. 4.
  5. ↑ GAREDEW, GETAHUN (2017). Local Adaptation Practices in Response to Climate Change in the Bilate River Basin, Southern Ethiopia (PDF). University of South Africa (UNISA). pp. 33 to 60.
  6. ↑ David, Buxton. David Roden Buxton. David Roden Buxton. p. 66.
  7. ↑ "EthioInfo". CSA. Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia.
  8. ↑ Damtew Teferra and Philip G. Altbach, eds., African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook (Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 316-325