Ebenat (woreda)

Ebenat (Amharic: እብናት) also spelled Ibnat is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia.

It is named after the former district that lay roughly in the same area; the woreda itself dates from the mid-1960s.

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 220,177, an increase of 34.74% over the 1994 census, of whom 112,151 are men and 108,026 women; 12,002 or 5.45% are urban inhabitants.

The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 98.15% reporting that as their religion, while 1.39% of the population said they were Muslim.

The largest ethnic group reported in Ebenat was the Amhara (99.92%).