Delgi is a town in the Amhara region western Ethiopia. Located on the north-western shore of Lake Tana in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 12°12′N37°03′E / 12.200°N 37.050°E Coordinates: 12°12′N37°03′E / 12.200°N 37.050°E and an elevation of 1785 meters above sea level. It is the only towns in Takusa woreda and rich in agricultural product and fishery.
A weekly ferry connects Delgi with Gorgora and Bahir Dar.
The Scots explorer James Bruce paused for an hour at the church of Delgi Mariam 30 Oct 1770, and in his memoirs recalled the village of Delgi "adjoining to it [the church], is but small". Nearby is the hill of Goy Mariam, where at the time "the queen-mother has a house"; Bruce further recorded, "All the habitations in this country were burnt by Ras Michael in his return to Gondar after the battle of Fagitta. [1] Arthur J. Hayes passed through Delgi twice in 1904 during his circumambulation of Lake Tana, spending three days there in January and three more the next month. [2]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 8,725 of whom 4,120 are men and 4,605 are women. [3] The 1994 census reported Dengel Ber had a total population of 40,054 of whom 2,168 were men and 2,886 were women.
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Gondar or Gonder is a city and woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, Gondar is north of Tana Lake on the Lesser Angereb River and southwest of the Simien Mountains. It has a latitude and longitude of 12°36′N37°28′E with an elevation of 2133 meters above sea level. As of 2016, Gondara has a population of 299,969.
Amhara Region is a regional state in northern Ethiopia, and the homeland of the Amhara people. Previously known as "Region 3", its capital is Bahir Dar. Ethiopia's largest inland body of water, Lake Tana, which is the source of the Blue Nile river, is located within Amhara. The region also contains the Semien Mountains National Park, which includes Ras Dashan, the highest point in Ethiopia. Amhara is bordered by the state of Sudan to the west and northwest, and in other directions by other regions of Ethiopia: Tigray to the north, Afar to the east, Benishangul-Gumuz to the west and southwest, and Oromia to the south.
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