Endamekoni () (also transliterated as Enda Mohoni) is one of the

Districts of Ethiopia Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas (; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''List of zones of Ethiopia, zones'' and the ''Regions of Ethiopia, regional states''. These districts are f ...

, or ''woredas'', in the

Tigray Region The Tigray Region (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) is the northernmost Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob people, Irob and Kunama people. I ...

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

. Part of the Debubawi Zone, Endamehoni is bordered on the south by Ofla, on the west by the

Amhara Region The Amhara Region (), officially the Amhara National Regional State (), is a Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in northern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Amhara people, Amhara, Awi people, Awi, Xamir people, Xamir, Argobba people, Argobba, a ...

, on the north by

Alaje Alaje () is a Districts of Ethiopia, District of Ethiopia, or ''woreda'', in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debubawi Zone, Alaje is bordered on the south by Endamehoni, on the southwest by the Amhara Region, on the north by Debub Misra ...

, and on the east by Raya Azebo. Towns in Endamehoni include Wedisemro. The town of Maychew is surrounded by Endamehoni. A baseline survey released in December 2011 stated the following facts about the Endamehoni. The main rivers of this woreda are Gereb Ayni, Hara, Nai Muq, Awdey, and Mai Chumachil. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy in the woreda. Communication services include one post office, automatic and mobile telephones, and internet access in the woreda capital, supplemented with 18 satellite telephones in the rural portion. The woreda capital has 24-hour electric service from hydropower source of energy, while two towns and two rural subdivisions have electric service from the national hydropower grid. Public transport provides access to the woreda capital. Dedebit Credit and Saving Institution SC is the main micro finance institution in Endamehoni.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the

Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency, also known as the Ethiopian Statistical Service (ESS; Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ስታቲስቲክስ አገልግሎት), is an Ethiopian government agency designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that ...

of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 84,739, an increase of 36.90% over the 1994 census, of whom 42,052 are men and 42,687 women; 2,986 or 3.52% are urban inhabitants. With an area of 2,287.71 square kilometers, Endamehoni has a population density of 37.04, which is less than the Zone average of 53.91 persons per square kilometer. A total of 18,816 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.50 persons to a household, and 18,371 housing units. 93.63% of the population said they were Orthodox Christians, and 6.36% were

Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

. The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 81,657, of whom 39,070 were men and 42,587 were women; 20,368 or 24.94% of its population were urban dwellers. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Endamehoni were the

Tigrayan The Tigrayan people (, ''Təgaru'') are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia. They speak the Tigrinya language, an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Ethiopian Semitic branch. The daily life ...

(97.92%), and the Amhara (1.1%); all other ethnic groups made up 0.98% of the population. Tigrinya was spoken as a first language by 97.87%, and 1.43% spoke

Amharic Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populati ...

; the remaining 0.7% spoke all other primary languages reported. 97.23% of the population practiced

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church () is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. One of the few Christian churches in Africa originating before European colonization of the continent, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church dates bac ...

, and 2.69% were

. Concerning

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

, 18.78% of the population were considered literate, which is more than the Zone average of 15.71%; 28.35% of children aged 7–12 were in primary school; 4.95% of the children aged 13–14 were in junior secondary school; 5.53% of the inhabitants aged 15–18 were in senior secondary school. Concerning sanitary conditions, about 90% of the urban houses and 31% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; about 49% of the urban and 15% of the total had toilet facilities.

Agriculture

A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 17,400 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 0.44 hectares of land. Of the 7,658 hectares of private land surveyed, 91.1% was in cultivation, 0.34% pasture, 2.79% fallow, 0.61%

woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the '' plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunli ...

, and 5.14% was devoted to other uses. For the land under cultivation in this woreda, 64.73% was planted in cereals, 23.77% in pulses, 35 hectares in oilseeds, and 8 in vegetables. The area planted in

gesho ''Rhamnus prinoides'', the shiny-leaf buckthorn, is an African shrub or small tree in the family Rhamnaceae. Commonly referred to as "gesho" it was first scientifically described by French botanist Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in 1789. ...

was 54 hectares; the area planted in fruit trees is missing. 65.43% of the farmers both raised crops and livestock, while 32.51% only grew crops and 2.07% only raised livestock. Land tenure in this woreda is distributed amongst 89.07% owning their land, and 10.19% renting; the number held in other forms of tenure is missing."Central Statistical Authority of Ethiopia. Agricultural Sample Survey (AgSE2001). Report on Area and Production - Tigray Region. Version 1.1 - December 2007"
(accessed 26 January 2009)

2020 woreda reorganisation

In 2020, woreda Indamekhoni became inoperative and its territory belongs to the following new woredas: *Indamekhoni (new, smaller, woreda) *Neqsege woreda *Maychew town

References

{{Districts of the Tigray Region Districts of Tigray Region