Hagere Selam is a town in northern Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

. Located in the Tembien

Tembien

Tembien is one of the former provinces of Ethiopia. It is a mountainous area of that country.The name Tembien has also been used for:*Tembien, an Italian 600-Serie Adua class submarine sunk in World War II...

 area of the Tigray Region

Tigray Region

Tigray Region is the northernmost of the nine ethnic regions of Ethiopia containing the homeland of the Tigray people. It was formerly known as Region 1...

 on the Mekelle-Abiy Addi

Abiy Addi

Abiy Addi is a town in north central Ethiopia, and was capital of the former province of Tembien before that province was incorporated into Tigray...

 regional road, it has a longitude and latitude of 13°39′N 39°10′E with an elevation of 2625 meters above sea level. The town is the administrative center of Degua Tembien

Degua Tembien

Degua Tembien is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It is named in part after the former province of Tembien. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, Degua Tembien is bordered on the south by the Debubawi Zone, on the west by Abergele, on the north by Kola Tembien, and on the east by...

 woreda

Woreda

Woreda is an administrative division of Ethiopia , equivalent to a district . Woredas are composed of a number of Kebele, or neighborhood associations, which are the smallest unit of local government in Ethiopia...

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Hagere Selam is located on the saddle point

Saddle point

In mathematics, a saddle point is a point in the domain of a function that is a stationary point but not a local extremum. The name derives from the fact that in two dimensions the surface resembles a saddle that curves up in one direction, and curves down in a different direction...

 between two of the highest points in Tigray. The regional road from Mekelle to Abiy Addi travels through Hagere Selam, before going down to the Abergele lowlands. The area is categorized as highland or dega. In Hagere Selam, a local road diverts from the regional road to join the Abiy Addi - Adwa

Adwa

Adwa is a market town in northern Ethiopia, and best known as the community closest to the decisive Battle of Adowa fought in 1896 with Italian troops. Notably, Ethiopian soldiers won the battle, thus being the only African nation to thwart European colonialism...

 road in the northwest near Kechemo. The local economy is dependent on agriculture, with barley being the main crop grown in the area, and on apiculture.

Demographics

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency

Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia)

The Central Statistical Agency is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social growth, as well as to act as an official training center in that field. It is part of the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance and...

in 2005, Hagere Selam has an estimated total population of 6,797, of whom 2,988 are men and 3,809 are women. The 1994 census reported it had a total population of 3932, of whom 1591 were men and 2341 were women.