Damot Pulasa
district in Ethiopia
Damot Pulasa is a district in South Ethiopia, Part of the Wolayita Zone. Damot Pulasa is bordered on the east and south by Damot Gale, on the west by the Boloso Sore, and on the north by the Hadiya Zone. Damot Pulasa was separated from Damo Gale district. The administrative center of the district is Shanto.
Demographics
Based on the 2019 population projection conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 135,760, of whom 66,463 are men and 69,297 women; 5,346 or 5.08% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were Protestants, with 73.72% of the population reporting that belief, 17.1% were Roman Catholic, and 8.17% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Damot Pulasa” is district in Ethiopia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Damot, Pulasa and district, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “district in Ethiopia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5212917. Authority coordinates are 7.033, 37.833. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.
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This entry incorporates text from “Damot Pulasa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.