🇪🇹 Ethiopia SNNPR — Southern 2 tours

Konso Cultural Landscape

UNESCO-listed terraced farming culture — 400-year-old dry-stone terraces, fortified villages and carved waka grave markers.

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Country

🇪🇹 Ethiopia

Region

SNNPR — Southern

Best time

October–February

Coordinates

5.250, 37.480

About Konso Cultural Landscape

The Konso people have farmed these hills for over 400 years, building elaborate dry-stone terraces to hold the soil and fortified villages (paleta) ringed by multiple stone walls. UNESCO-listed since 2011. The carved wooden waka grave-markers depict deceased heroes and their victims and are unique to Konso culture.

Highlights

  • UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • 400-year-old terrace agriculture
  • Fortified paleta villages
  • Waka carved grave markers
  • Mole fossil-turn exhibit at Gesergio
Live forecast · Konso Cultural Landscape
28°C Clear sky · 5 km/h wind
Updated 2026-05-18T16:00
  1. 🌦 28° 19° 💧 1.7mm
  2. 🌦 28° 19° 💧 4.5mm
  3. 🌦 28° 19° 💧 2.0mm
  4. 🌧 30° 21° 💧 2.6mm
  5. 🌦 30° 21° 💧 0.5mm
  6. 🌦 30° 21° 💧 1.3mm
  7. 🌦 30° 21° 💧 0.6mm
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
Live wildlife observations
Recently spotted near Konso Cultural Landscape

Real observations published to GBIF by researchers, lodges, and citizen scientists — refreshed daily.

Glaucidium perlatum
2026-01-10 · Ethiopia
Madoqua guentheri
2026-02-19 · Ethiopia
Campethera nubica
2026-02-19 · Ethiopia
Passer shelleyi
2026-02-19 · Ethiopia
Acryllium vulturinum
2026-02-19 · Ethiopia
Zavattariornis stresemanni
2026-02-18 · Ethiopia
Source: GBIF.org — Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Best time to visit

October–February

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