The southern highway
The main road from Addis Ababa to Hawassa runs straight through town, giving the map a dominant north–south line that everything else seems to hang from.
Ata mapa faigafua · Ethiopia
7.2000° N / 38.6000° E
A crossroads town in the Ethiopian Rift Valley, where the main southern highway meets roads fanning out across farmland





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Te mapa
Shashamane sits in the Oromia region, on the main road that runs south from Addis Ababa through the Rift Valley towards Hawassa. Its position as a junction shapes the whole map. The highway forms a strong spine, and secondary roads branch away east and west, making the town an important stop for trade and transport across southern Ethiopia.
The town is widely known for its Rastafari community, which settled on land linked to a grant made by Emperor Haile Selassie in the mid-twentieth century. Around the commercial core the street network becomes looser and more irregular. Residential compounds, markets and farm plots blend into the agricultural landscape that surrounds the town on all sides.
A Shashamane map poster captures the logic of a road town. It shows a clear axis, a knot of streets where routes converge and a gradual thinning into countryside. Printed in monochrome, the drawing is spare and legible. It is more about movement and connection than monuments, which is how the place tends to be experienced.
The main road from Addis Ababa to Hawassa runs straight through town, giving the map a dominant north–south line that everything else seems to hang from.
Where regional roads split off, the street pattern tightens into a denser commercial knot of markets, depots and shops before spreading out again into residential areas.
Beyond the built-up area the map loosens into fields and scattered settlements on the floor of the Rift Valley, with lakes lying not far to the north and south.
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Koteā ko Shashamane
For members of the diaspora, travellers who passed through on the road south, or anyone with ties to the Rastafari community, this map is a quiet way to keep the town close. Its simple structure looks deliberate on a wall and pairs well with other maps of Ethiopia.
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Fakatau te posita Shashamane| Lahi ʻo te pulūti | Mahino | Faile |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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