Bishoftu
Coordinates: 8 ° 45 ' N , 38 ° 59' E
Bishoftu ( Amharic : ቢሾፍቱ, the name comes from the Oromo language , meanwhile Debre Zeyit or Debre Zeyt , Amharic: ደብረ ዘይት), is a city in Ethiopia and is located southeast of Addis Ababa on the railway line to Djibouti . For 2006 their population is given as 107,344. The city is located in the Oromiyaa region .
location
Debre Zeyit is a vacation spot surrounded by five crater lakes :
- Lake Bishoftu,
- Lake Hora,
- Lake Bishoftu Guda,
- Lake Koriftu and
- Lake Chalaklaka, which only turns into a body of water seasonally.
Infrastructure
The city is home to the Harar Meda Airport the Ethiopian Air Force . There is also a campus of the University of Addis Ababa and the Meserete Kristos College of the Mennonite Meserete Kristos Church in Debre Zeyit . As a result of tourism to the crater lakes, new hotels such. B. the Adulala Resort and Spa, the Kuriftu Hotel and the Babogaya Resort were built. The Zuqualla volcano and two reservoirs are located near the city .
Plane crash in March 2019
On March 10, 2019 crashed Boeing 737 MAX 8 on the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 shortly after takeoff with 149 passengers and 8 crew members on the way from Addis Ababa airport to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Nairobi at Bishoftu from. All inmates were killed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philip Briggs: Ethiopia . Bradt Travel Guides , 2009, ISBN 978-1-84162-284-2 , p. 377.
- ↑ Oromiya 1 . In: 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia . Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA). 2007. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Retrieved on December 2, 2011.