Delo Serbo
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Dello Sebro (Oromo: afaan) (Amharic: ደሎ ሠብሮ) is the second largest town in the woreda of Ginir. The town is in the Bale Zone in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia and is located at approximately 7011ꞌ latitude North and 40038ꞌ longitude East. Its location is along the highway (at 512 km spot from Addis Ababa) to Ginnir where the road to the Dirre Sheik Husein Shrine is converged northward.
‘Dello’ is named after a coffee merchants’ temporary market site who came from ‘Dello Buna’ and ‘Sebro’ is the former Oromo tribe settled in the area. The two words combined to form Dello Sebro, meaning Dello of the Sebro tribe.
Dello Sebro is bordered to the north by Abursha Dineshie, the east by Amolicho Lalu, the southeast by Tife Doda, the southwest by Ajjamsa, and the west by Jafera Hulluqqo villages. The Werrangabbo River, which is called the Gololcha in its lower course, passes to the Northeast and serves as a boundary between Dello Sebroo, Jafera Hulluqqo and Abursha Dineshie. Werrangabbo was the main source of drinking water for local people before 1997, but today it is used for cattle during the dry seasons.
Dello Sebro is divided into town administration and Peasants’ Village, so both town dwellers, mostly merchants and service givers, and farmers are living in the town. According to the information from the town's administration in 2014 the number of registered permanent residents is 10,180, consisting of 4,968 males and 5,212 females.
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