Bonga (Ethiopia)

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Bonga is a city in southwest Ethiopia in the region of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples . The place was long the capital of the historical kingdom of Kaffa .

Population development

In 1938 Bonga had 3,000 inhabitants, 200 of whom were kaffa .

Attractions

In 2009 the construction of a national coffee museum began. Since June 2010, a forest area in Bonga than UNESCO - Biosphere Reserve recognized. The Kafa Biosphere Reserve primarily concerns the protection of the remaining forests in southwest Ethiopia, from which the coffee bushes , especially the Arabica coffee, are said to come.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GWB Huntingford: The Galla of Ethiopia - The Kingdom Kafa and Janjero , International African Institut, London 1955, p. 105.
  2. Press release on the homepage of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve .
  3. Homepage of the biosphere reserve
  4. Ines Passemeyer, Wildkaffee , GEO issue 07/2011, pp. 117-121.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.geo.de  

Coordinates: 7 ° 16 '  N , 36 ° 15'  E