Dekemhare

Province

Dekemhare is a city in Eritrea with about 32,000 inhabitants ( 2004). It has an area of ​​10 square kilometers and is located about 38 km south of the capital Asmara, in the Debub region. The inhabitants belong to the ethnic groups of the Tigre, Tigrinya and Saho and some are Muslims and some Christians.

The town is located at 2050 m and therefore has a moderate climate for the region with an annual rainfall of 570 mm. Because of this climate, which is well suited for the fruit and wine growing, Dekemhare has been developed by the Italians during the colonial period from 1920 specifically to a center of the food industry. This center it is today.

Since the 1990s Dekemhare pursues a targeted location policy for industrial companies, so that the city is an important industrial city today. Among other things, the Eritrean company Tesimadas produced there buses, transportation, cleaning and garbage trucks.

In the final phase of the war of independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia began on 19 May 1991 Dekemhare the war ultimately decisive Umkesselungsoperation the present capital. This Dekemhare was strongly affected.