Ginbo

Ginbo (sometimes spelled Gimbo) is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. The name Ginbo comes from one of the provinces in the former Kingdom of Kaffa. That province, as well as the Kafficho provinces Bonga and Manjo, became districts with the Ethiopian conquest in 1896, and these districts were later merged to form the modern woreda.

Part of the Keffa Zone, Ginbo is bordered on the south by Decha, on the west by Chena, on the northwest by Gewata, on the north by the Gojeb River which separates it from the Oromia Region, and on the east by Menjiwo. Towns in Ginbo include Diri, Gojeb, Ufa and Wushwush. Ginbo surrounds Bonga town. The western part of Ginbo was used to create Gewata woreda.

The primary food crops include enset and maize; other staple foods include wheat and barley. A major cash crop in this woreda is tea; there is a large tea plantation at Wushwush. Notable landmarks include a Christian monastery 12 kilometers from Bonga which dates to 1550, and the Bonga Forest Reserve covering some 500 square kilometers of the surrounding hillsides.

Ginbo was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2004 as one of several woredas for voluntary resettlement for farmers from overpopulated areas, becoming the new home for a total of 7800 heads of households and 31,200 total family members.

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 89,892, of whom 44,774 are men and 45,118 women; 9,611 or 10.69% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 87.17% of the population reporting that belief, 5.14% were Muslim, 4.01% were Protestants, and 3.14% embraced Catholicism.

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