Located in the Agew Awi Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 11°16′N 36°50′E / 11.267°N 36.833°E / 11.267; 36.833 with an elevation of 2137 meters above sea level.

Nagadras Habtewerq, director of customs in the town during the early 1930s, achieved a measure of success in liberating slaves despite the determined opposition of influential figures like the slaver Fitawrari Zelleqe.

Cheesman, who spent a considerable amount of energy mapping Agawmeder and nearby Gojjam.

As a young man, Haddis Alemayehu, who was to become the foremost Amharic fiction writer, served for two years as a customs clerk at Dangila in the early 1930s.

[4] Based on the national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency in 2007, Dangila had a total population of 24,827, of whom 12,389 were male and 12,438 were female.