Mekoni, also Mehoni (
Ge'ez: መኾኒ or መሆኒ), is a town in the
Tigray Region of
Ethiopia. "Mekoni" (pronounced as 'Me-koni') is located at 657 km north of
Addis Ababa along
Ethiopian Highway 2 which runs to
Mekelle (the capital city of Tigray region),
Adigrat,
Aksum,
Shire
Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the beginn ...
and
Humera with an altitude of 2479 m.
Economy
The town's economy is agriculturally focused. In recent years, there have been construction of irrigated and terraced farming in order to fight
desertification
Desertification is a type of land degradation in drylands in which biological productivity is lost due to natural processes or induced by human activities whereby fertile areas become increasingly arid. It is the spread of arid areas caused by ...
.
References
Populated places in the Tigray Region
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