Where is Hayq, Amhara located?

Hayq is located in Amhara, Ethiopia, at approximate coordinates 11.3132°, 39.6770°.

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Hayq

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Hayq

Elevation2030 m

Coordinates11.31°, 39.68°

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Elevation

2030 m

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Overview

Hayq or Haik is a town in northern Ethiopia. It is named after Lake Hayq, which lies two kilometers east of the city and is the home of Istifanos Monastery, an important landmark in Ethiopian Church history. Located 28 kilometers north of Dessie in the Tehuledere woreda of the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, the town has a latitude and longitude of 11°18′N 39°41′E and an elevation of 2,030 metres (6,660 ft) above sea level.

History & geography

History

In the late 1930s, the Italian occupiers dedicated a graveyard near Hayq for the bodies of dead soldiers from the Blackshirt 3 Gennaio Division. During the mid-1980s, local educational services was augmented by the Swedish Wello Environment Education Project, which ran a secondary school.

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