Wayu Tuka

Wayo Tuka is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is part of the Misraq Welega Zone. It was separated from Guto Wayu woreda. It is bounded by Sibu Sire in the north and east, Leka Dulecha in the south, and Guto Gida in west. Gute is the administrative center.

Demographics

The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 63,180, of whom 30,879 were men and 32,301 were women; none of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants observed Protestantism, with 58.8% reporting that as their religion, while 28.71% observed Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 9.15% were Catholics.

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Wayuu people

Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayúu, Guajiro, Wahiro) is an American Indian ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language is part of the Maipuran (Arawak) language family.

Geography

The Wayuu inhabit the arid Guajira Peninsula straddling the Venezuela-Colombia border, on the Caribbean Sea coast. Two major rivers flow through this mostly harsh environment: the Rancheria River in Colombia and the El Limón River in Venezuela representing the main source of water, along with artificial ponds designed to hold rain water during the rain season.

The territory has equatorial weather seasons: a rainy season from September to December, which they call Juyapu; a dry season, known by them as Jemial, from December to April; a second rainy season called Iwa from April to May; and a long second dry season from May to September.

History

Guajira rebellion

Even though the Wayuu were never subjugated by the Spanish, the two groups were in a more or less permanent state of war. There had been rebellions in 1701 (when they destroyed a Capuchin mission), 1727 (when more than 2,000 natives attacked the Spanish), 1741, 1757, 1761 and 1768. In 1718 Governor Soto de Herrera called them "barbarians, horse thieves, worthy of death, without God, without law and without a king." Of all the Indigenous peoples in the territory of Colombia, they were unique in having learned the use of firearms and horses.

WAYU

WAYU (91.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian Music format as an owned and operated affiliate of the WAY-FM Network. Licensed to Steele, Alabama, USA, the station serves the Gadsden, Alabama area.

WAYU is also heard in the Anniston, Alabama area through a translator on 107.3 FM.

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Coordinates: 33°57′30″N 86°13′01″W / 33.9582°N 86.2169°W / 33.9582; -86.2169