Hintalo (Tigrinya: ሕንጣሎ), also called Antalo, was Administrative Center of Enderta’s historical wereda of Gabat Melash, is a small town located in the Debub Misraqawi (Southeastern) Zone of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

The urge to control this fortified mountainous place has provoked frequent engagements among various Tigrayan chiefs since the 17th century.

[2] Located on a high plateau beneath the south face of Amba Aradam, which made the town a natural fortress.

Earlier, it was the residence and a safe hideout of his father dejazmach Kafle Iyasus, who once rose up to challenge the authority of ras Mikael Sehul of Tigray.

[3] It was from Hintalo that ras Wolde Selassie received annual taxes, reviewed troops and declared administrative re-organizations.

On 9 October 1895, the Italian Major Ameglio with six companies and two pieces of artillery attacked Ethiopian warriors under Ras Mengesha Yohannes.

[11] It is just south of a steep hill formerly used for defense and just north of a wide fertile plain,[2] along the road from Shoa to Massawa, the former Ethiopian port which now lies within Eritrea.

[13] In his "Life in Abysinia", the 19th-century British traveller Mansfield Parkyns writes that the family of Dejazmach Kifla Iyasus and Ras Wolde Selassie were of distinguished origin and came from Hintalo in Enderta, where they were chiefs.

Ras Bitweded Gebre Kidan was the Enderassie of Emperor Yohaness IV, and served as the Ethiopia's prime minister from 1872 to 1889.