Gamu-Gofa

Gemu - Gofa ( ጋሙ ጎፋ, also Gamu Gofa ) was a province in the southern part of Ethiopia, named after the two ethnic groups that lived within the borders of the province: the Gamo and the Gofa.

First incorporated by the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II in the 1880s, the Empire of Abyssinia, their capital was first Chencha, from 1965 its capital was moved to Arba Minch.

Gamu - Gofa was narrowed from the west and from the north by the Kingdom of Kaffa ( from 1987 Kaffa province ), on the northern and eastern borders was the province of Sidamo, in the southeast lay the lake Chew Bahir and the south finally British East Africa (later Kenya) and the Turkana.

With the adoption and the entry into force of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1995 Gamu - Gofa was reorganized and in the zones Semien Omo zone ( Omo North ) and the Debub Omo zone ( Omo South) in the Ethiopian region of southern divided nations, nationalities and peoples.