Hararghe, sometimes spelled Harerge, was a province in the eastern part of Ethiopia, with its capital in Harar. Hararghe encompassed part of the Ogaden. With the adoption of the constitution in 1995, Hararghe was divided between the Oromia and Somali Regions, forming a large part of the latter. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Ityopiya, Amharic ኢትዮጵያ) is a country situated in the Horn of Africa. ... Harar, also spelled Harrar, is a city in Ethiopia, situated in the eastern extension of the Ethiopian highlands, about five hundred km from Addis Ababa. ... Categories: Stub ... Categories: Africa geography stubs ... Somali is the eastern-most of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia. ...
The Hararghe area is situated in the eastern part of Ethiopia, 200 to 400 kms east of the capital city Addis Ababa, some 300 kms south of Djibouti and 250 kms west of Hargeisa towns.
In Hararghe coffee is generally grown at altitudes ranging from around 1,700m to 2,000m asl, the lower limit being determined by the average amount of rainfall (1,000 mm) and distribution and the higher by the ambient temperature (best growth with average daily maximum temperatures of 24º C).
Coffee producers of East Hararghe and Mesela generally process their coffee on the farm to sell clean coffee beans, whereas the coffee produced in the central and southern part of West Hararghe (Kuni, Habro, Boke, Darolebu) is sold as dried cherries, the hulling being done by the traders.
Hararghe is one of the recently commenced missionary frontier of Evangelical Christianity.
Where as the traditional religions within Hararghe are still characterized by orality when it comes to their heritage and teaching documentations, partly because of their diversity and rapid development into essential diversity.
It appears among the population of Hararghe at large as a plant enjoying divine blessings and the Adares or Hararis honor it as a sacred plant.