Serejeqa ( ar, سيريجاكا, ti, ሰረጃቓ) is a town in the

Anseba Region Anseba Region (Tigrinya: ዞባ ዓንሰባ, it, Regione dell'Anseba) is an administrative region of Eritrea, located in northern Eritrea. The capital and the most populous city in the region is Keren. The region is named after Anseba River, ...

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

. It is located about 20 km northwest of

Asmara Asmara ( ), or Asmera, is the capital and most populous city of Eritrea, in the country's Central Region. It sits at an elevation of , making it the sixth highest capital in the world by altitude and the second highest capital in Africa. The c ...

on the asphalt road to

Keren Keren may refer to: Places Inhabited places * Keren, Eritrea, a city in Eritrea, formerly called Cheren * Keren Subregion, Anseba region, Eritrea Other places * House of Keren, a historical house in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia * Keren, a cr ...

, which in turn lies roughly 75 km away. The town is situated on the ridge of the

Eritrean highlands The Eritrean Highlands are a mountainous region in central Eritrea. Bordered to the south by the Mareb River, it is a northern continuation of the Ethiopian Highlands. The region has seen tremendous deforestation since the colonial period, which ...

. It is the upper endpoint of a gravel-road that traverses the eastern escarpments and has its other endpoint in

Shebah Shebah ( ar, شيباه) is an agricultural settlement on the plains beneath and east of the eastern escarpment of the Eritrean highlands which forms part of the Northern Red Sea administrative region with its capital in Massawa. It is situated abo ...

, on the low-lying plains at the foot of escarpments. With this gravel road, Serejeqa connects the north-western part of the highlands, including the city of Keren (Eritrea's third largest city) with the Red Sea and the port of

Massawa Massawa ( ; ti, ምጽዋዕ, məṣṣəwaʿ; gez, ምጽዋ; ar, مصوع; it, Massaua; pt, Maçuá) is a port city in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahl ...

(the second largest city). This route can be traveled without having to pass through the congested capital and largest city

or use the equally congested mountain-segment of the

asphalt road. Instead, the gravel road beginning in Serejeqa on one end, connects to the

She'eb She'eb ( tig, ሽዕብ) is a town in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea. It lies on the fertile plain at the foot of the eastern escarpment of the Eritrean Highlands. History It was the site of a massacre during the Eritrean War of Independenc ...

- Gahtelai asphalt road, which in turn unites with the less congested lowland part of the Massawa asphalt road, just 35 km from Massawa itself. Due to its proximity and connections to Asmara, Serejeqa also functions as a suburb of the capital, although it is not part of the metropolitan region of the capital (i.e.

Maekel Central Region ( Tigrinya: ዞባ ማእከል, it, Regione Centrale), also known as the Ma'ekel or Maakel Region, is an administrative region of Eritrea, located in central Eritrea. The region was formed on 15 April 1996, from the historical p ...

or Central Region).

References

Serejaka, Eritrea
Populated places in Eritrea {{Eritrea-geo-stub