Waghimra is one of the special Zone of Amhara region, is bordered in east and north with Tigray in south by Semien Wollo /Lalibela/ and in west with Gonder. The area of the zone covers about 788486km2 with a population about 418817, male 211403, female 207414 in 1999 E.C. Concerning religion Orthodox Tewahido Christianity is the predominant one, that is 99.6%, 0.27% Islam and 0.13% Shared by other religions, the official Himtgna (one of the Cushitic language family) in climates the zone is categorized as 5.45% highland, 31.43% temperate and 63.42% lowland. It is endowed with many cultures, historical, traditional and natural attractions, which is also inhabited by generous, proud, hospitable people.

They had also the founder of Zegwe dynasty and the zone capital city is SEKOTA. Sekota is located 510 km away from the regional capital city Bahir Dar, 128 km from Lalibela and 720 km away from Addis Ababa which is the earliest town is north Ethiopia and it has numerous tourism attractions such as Hidmo bet, Historical Cave, Open air market (on Thus day) however, these attractions of the zone and Sekota are not yet touched because of poor attention in tourism promotion and marketing strategies .

Taking in to consideration the potential of the attraction the present Culture and Tourism Department of the zone has been making its best level of effort to attract potential visitors to the area.