Wereta

Wereta
Wereta Location within Ethiopia
Coordinates: 11°55′N 37°42′E / 11.917°N 37.700°E / 11.917; 37.700
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Amhara
Zone	Debub Gondar Zone
Elevation	1,828 m (5,997 ft)
Population (2005)
• Total	26,317
Time zone	EAT (UTC+3)

Wereta (also transliterated as Woreta) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, east of Lake Tana and south of Addis Zemen, this town has a latitude and longitude of 11°55′N 37°42′E / 11.917°N 37.700°E / 11.917; 37.700Coordinates: 11°55′N 37°42′E / 11.917°N 37.700°E / 11.917; 37.700 with an elevation of 1828 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Fogera woreda.

Telephone service had reached Wereta by 1967, and as of 2007^[update] the town has electrical service. In the 1990s, a new campus for the Wereta College of Agriculture was designed by National Consultants (chief architect Assefa Bekele), with a proposed budget of 60 million Birr. Located on top of a hill next to the road to Bahir Dar, the college has a capacity of 2000 students and graduated 269 students in 2004.

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