Eritrea
Debub Region
Senafe subregion

Senafe

Senafe is a market town in southern , on the edge of the Eritrean highlands ሶይራ. The name Sanafe driven from yemeni words.The surrounding area is inhabited by the Saho people and the Tigrinya people.
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  • Type: Town with 6,830 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Hakir”, “Saanafé”, and “Sen’afe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Matara.

Archaeological site
Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0.
Metera, also known as Balaw Kalaw, is a small town and important archeological site located in the Debub Region of . Situated a few kilometers south of Senafe, it was a major city in the Dʿmt and Aksumite kingdoms.

Senafe

Latitude
14.7018° or 14° 42′ 6″ north
Longitude
39.4244° or 39° 25′ 28″ east
Population
6,830
Elevation
2,437 metres (7,995 feet)
Open location code
7G6XPC2F+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321223133
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
328893
Wiki­data ID
Q1024653
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Senafe” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሰናፌ”
  • Arabic: “صنعفي”
  • Asturian: “Senafe”
  • Chinese: “瑟納費”
  • Chinese: “瑟纳费”
  • Dutch: “Senafe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صنعفى”
  • Finnish: “Senafe”
  • French: “Senafe”
  • French: “Senafé”
  • German: “Senafe”
  • Indonesian: “Senafe”
  • Italian: “Sanafè” (historical)
  • Italian: “Senafè”
  • Japanese: “セナフェ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Senafe”
  • Norwegian: “Senafe”
  • Persian: “سنافه”
  • Polish: “Senafe”
  • Polish: “Senafie”
  • Russian: “Сенафе”
  • Russian: “Сэнафе”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنافه”
  • Spanish: “Senafe”
  • Swahili: “Senafe”
  • Swedish: “Senafe”
  • Tigre: “ሰንዓፈ”
  • Tigrinya: “Sen‘afe”
  • Tigrinya: “ሰንዓፈ”
  • Ukrainian: “Сенафе”
  • Urdu: “سینافے”
  • Zulu: “Senafe”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Senafe”. Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0.