Official Name: | Asasa |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Ethiopia |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Ethiopia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ethiopia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Oromia |
Subdivision Type2: | Zone |
Subdivision Name2: | west Arsi Zone |
Population As Of: | 2005 |
Population Total: | 19,506 |
Timezone: | EAT |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 7.1°N 39.1944°W |
Elevation M: | 2367 |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Cwb |
Asasa is a town in southeastern Ethiopia. Located in the West Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 7.1°N 51°W with an elevation of 2367 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Gedeb Asasa woreda.
Asasa was the location of the Kulumsa experimental farm, a project of Chilalo Agricultural Development Union that ran from 1966 to 1968.[1] In the late 1980s, a Skills Training Center operated in this town, teaching useful trades like pot-making.[2]
Based on figures from the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Asasa has an estimated total population of 19,506 of whom 9,865 are men and 9,641 are women.[3] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 10,903 of whom 5,350 were men and 5,553 women.