Both settlements lay on the borders of the former provinces of Agame and Enderta at the edge of the Ethiopian highlands.
Enderta is bordered on the west by Tembien, on the southeast by Wag, the south by Raya and Azebo, on the east by Aseb awraja of Afar (Ethiopia's former port), and on the north by Kilete Awla'elo, Agame and Adwa.