Dalbo

History

Dalbo used as a capital city of Kingdom of Wolaita. During his reign, King Gobe managed to inaugurate a telephone network that links Dalbo with Wachamo, the northern neighboring Kingdom of Hadiya. There is also the Royal Palace, which at ground plus one level, was the most sophisticated and built by Europeans standard. Dalbo city had been a center where the diplomats reside and very busy in receiving telephone calls coming from the Red Sea littorals and other places. After King Menelik II's triumph, the palace and other government offices in Dalbo, the Kingdom of Wolaita's capital and the most populated metropolitan center in colonial Africa, were set on fire. All of the houses, including the magnificent palace of Tona, were turned to ash, including seventy houses in the palace's inner circle that served as residences for top dignitaries, the court, a treasury house, and a meeting center, and 2800 houses of generals, and a warehouse of exportable items in the outer compound.

Most-observed species

• Variable Sunbird

  Cinnyris venustus (Shaw, 1799) · Aves
  36
• Brown-rumped Seedeater

  Crithagra tristriata (Rüppell, 1840) · Aves
  33
• Tacazze Sunbird

  Nectarinia tacazze (Stanley, 1814) · Aves
  31
• Dusky-brown Flycatcher

  Muscicapa adusta (F.Boie, 1828) · Aves
  22
• Willow Warbler

  Phylloscopus trochilus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  20
• Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher

  Dioptrornis chocolatinus (Rüppell, 1840) · Aves
  19
• Bronze mannikin

  Lonchura cucullata (Swainson, 1837) · Aves
  19
• Abyssinian Thrush

  Turdus abyssinicus Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  19

Most recent

• M 4.4 — 2016-01-24
  2 km N of Hawassa, Ethiopia
• M 4.4 — 2011-10-17
  Ethiopia
• M 5 — 2011-03-19
  13 km ENE of Wendo, Ethiopia
• M 5.1 — 2010-12-19
  3 km SSW of Hosa’ina, Ethiopia
• M 4.7 — 2005-07-07
  32 km NNE of Arba Minch, Ethiopia