Gamo people

The name "Gamo" means a lion, which refers to their legacy and one of Omotic peoples. Along with the Goffa people, they gave their names to the former Gamo-Gofa province of Ethiopia. Goffa broke away from Gamo-Gofa zone in 2019.

They speak the Gamo language.

The 2007 Ethiopian national census reported that 1,107,163 people (or 1.56% of the Ethiopian population) identified themselves as Gamo, of whom 141,233 were urban inhabitants and 965,930 Rural. The national census of 2007 believed to be incorrect, it is widely believed that the population of Gamo is over 3 million. The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region is home to 64.5% of this people.

Arbaminch is the capital city of Gamo people.[2]

The Gamo contribute much of the fruit including banana, mango, apple and papaya, to the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.And most of the people are the weavers of which country get cultural clothes like kuta,gabi,buloko,dunguza etc.

Originally their belief system were all in traditional African religions that was closely tied to nature.[3] Most are members to the Christian protestantism P'ent'ay or Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.[4] The missionary activities of the Christians has brought disturbances and tensions in the traditional society, threatening the old way of life and the ecological balance.[5]

• Dena Freeman, "From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8 (2002), pp. 23–44