Ogolcho is a town in southeastern 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 Arsi Zone

Arsi Zone

Arsi is one of the 12 zones of the Oromia Region in Ethiopia. Arsi is also the name of a former province. Both the Zone and the former province are named after a subgroup of the Oromo, who inhabit both...

 of the Oromia Region

Oromia Region

Oromia is one of the nine ethnic divisions of Ethiopia...

, it has a latitude and longitude of 08°03′N 39°00′E with an elevation of 1687 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Ziway Dugda

Ziway Dugda

Ziway Dugda is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Arsi Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Ziway Dugda is bordered on the south by Munesa, on the west and north by the Misraq Shewa Zone, on the east by Hitosa, and on the southeast by Tiyo; also on its western...

 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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Overview

According to the Oromia Regional government, this town currently has telephone and postal service, but no electricity.

According to materials on the Nordic Africa Institute website, Ogolcho was the administrative center of a woreda at least as early as the 1980s.

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, Ogolcho has an estimated total population of 4,338 of whom 2,220 were males and 2,118 were females. The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 2,424 of whom 1,204 were males and 1,220 were females.