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Hosaina

Set at an altitude of over 2,300 m in a mountainous region, Hosaina is an important centre for enset (false banana) cultivation.

Hosaina is the main town of the Hadiya people, who are culturally affiliated to the Guarage, but speak a very different Cushitic language called Hadinya, and are traditionally Muslim.  However, since two missionaries settled in the town in 1929, Hosaina has become a centre for protestant Christianity in southern Ethiopia.

Map of Hosaina