Dodotana Sire is bordered on the south by Tena,[1] on the southwest by Hitosa, on the north by the Misraq Shewa Zone, on the east by Jeju, and on the southeast by Sude.
A survey of the land in this woreda shows that 23.2% is arable or cultivable, 10.6% pasture, 4.3% forest, and the remaining 42% is considered swampy, mountainous or otherwise unusable.
[3] Haricot bean, onions, garlic and linseed are important cash crops; Dodtona Sire produced 4.3% of the total amount of hides and skins in this Zone.
Interviews with local elders reveal that in 1912 Lenjiso Diga organized his fellow Oromos to attack the newcomers.
[4] Until the early 1970s the inhabitants of Dodotana Sire, being Arsi Oromo, were in chronic conflict with Karayu pastoralists from Fentale, as well as with Jille Oromos from in the neighboring woreda, over rights to grazing land and drinking water for livestock.
This conflict was settled during the early 1990s by emphasizing overall ethnic affiliation over minor clan differences.