Maychew

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Place details

Locality: ማይ ጨው / Maychew
Region: ትግራይ تجراى
Country: ኢትዮጵያ
Population: 49,600
Timezone: Africa/Addis_Ababa

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Maychew
Settlement.native_name: ማይጨው (salt water)
Settlement.settlement_type: Town and Woreda
Settlement.pushpin_map: Ethiopia#Horn of Africa#Africa
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location within Ethiopia##Location within the Horn of Africa##Location within Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Zone
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Debubawi (Southern)
Settlement.population_as_of: 2007
Settlement.population_total: 23,419
Settlement.timezone: EAT
Settlement.utc_offset: +3
Settlement.elevation_m: 2479

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Wikidata facts

Elevation: 2479

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Maychew, also Maichew (, "salt water"), is a town and woreda in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It is located at 665 km north of Addis Ababa along Ethiopian Highway 2. According to Ethiopia’s agro-ecological setting, Maychew and its environs are classified under the Weinadega (semi-temperate zone). Maychew is located in the endoreic basin of the Afar Triangle. The streams near Maychew do not reach the ocean.

== History == After his capture in 1921 by Gugsa Araya Selassie, the deposed Lij Iyasu was detained for two weeks at Maychew.