Rivers in this woreda include the Samre, which is of historical importance as it was the traditional boundary between Tigray Province to the north, and Lasta or Wag to the south.

[1] Local points of interest in this woreda include the rock-hewn churches of Arbatu Insesa[2] and Iyasus Hinta.

[4][5] Historically, both Saharti with its capital city of Gijet as well as Wea'areb with its capital city of Samre have been an integral part of Enderta province, when Enderta was an independent province as well as an awraja as recent as the late 1990s.

[9] A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 22,957 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 1.47 hectares of land.

For the land under cultivation in Samre, 81.56% was planted in cereals, 7.52% in pulses, 2.11% in oilseeds, and 10 hectares in vegetables.