Official Name: | Galan |
Native Name Lang: | om |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Ethiopia#Africa |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Ethiopia |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ethiopia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Zone |
Subdivision Name2: | Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finfinne |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Timezone: | EAT |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Dubra (Oromo: "virgin"[1]) is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finfinne, about 70 km north of Addis Ababa, this town has a latitude and longitude of 9.4333°N 77°W with an elevation of 2450 meters above sea level. The town sits above the canyon of the Muger River, near the largest falls of the Muger.[1]
Dubra is important for being one of the major sites for the production of cement in Ethiopia. In 2006, the Muger Cement Factory plant announced it would expand its facilities.[2] In 2008, Mohammed Al-Amoudi's Derba Midroc Cement company announced it would establish its own cement factory 8 km from Durba.[3] [4]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Dubra has an estimated total population of 2,188 of whom 1,053 were men and 1,135 were women.[5] The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 1,225 of whom 571 were men and 654 were women. It is one of six towns in Mulona Sululta woreda.