Kacha Bira is a

woreda 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 ...

in the

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. Part of the

Kembata Tembaro Zone Kembata is a zone in the Central Ethiopia Regional State of Ethiopia. It was formerly known as ''Kembata, Alaba and Tembaro'', until Alaba special woreda, Alaba and Tembaro became a woreda, special woreda in 2002 and 2023 respectively. This zone ...

, Kacha Bira is bordered on the south by an

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of the

Hadiya Zone Hadiya (also transliterated Hadiyya) is a zone in the Central Ethiopia Regional State of Ethiopia. This zone is named after the Hadiya of the Hadiya Kingdom, whose homeland covers part of the administrative division. Hadiya is bordered on th ...

, on the southwest by the

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, on the west by Hadero Tunto, on the northwest by the Hadiya Zone, on the north by Doyogena and Angacha, and on the east by

Kedida Gamela Kedida Gamela is a woreda in the Central Ethiopia Regional State of Ethiopia. Part of the Kembata Zone. Kedida Gamela is bordered on the east and south by an Misraq Badawacho woreda of the Hadiya Zone, on the west by Kacha Bira, on the northwe ...

. Towns in Kacha Bira include Shinshicho and Hadero. Kacha Bira has 56 kilometers of all-weather roads and 37 kilometers of dry-weather roads, for an average road density of 310 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers. In March 2000,

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from

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reportedly killed Ermias Abuye, a resident of Kacha Bira, while he was plowing his fields for supporting the

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. Police reportedly refused to investigate the case initially despite a request from the farmer's family, and the responsible officer was working in the Durame police station at year's end.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 113,687, of whom 55,827 are men and 57,860 women; 15,848 or 13.94% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were

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, with 85.57% of the population reporting that belief, 8.13% were

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and 5.98% practiced

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. The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 118,603 of whom 58,882 were men and 59,721 were women; 11,450 or 9.65% of its population were urban dwellers. The four largest ethnic groups reported in Kacha Bira were the Hadiya (78.91%), the Kambaata (16.48%), the Welayta (2.64%), and the Amhara (0.73%); all other ethnic groups made up 1.24% of the population. 78.91% speak Hadiya is spoken as a first language. 16.48% Kambaata, 2.61% Welayta and 0.9% speak

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 0.58% spoke all other primary languages reported. 72.13% of the population said they were

, 14.64% practiced

, and 11.85% were

.''1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region'', Vol. 1, part 1
, Tables 2.1, 2.12, 2.15, 2.19 (accessed 30 December 2008)

Notes

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