Kelle (ኬሌ) is a town in southern Ethiopia, and is the administrative center of the Amaro special woreda. Located in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region southeast of Lake Abaya.

The name of this town, Kelle, comes from the Koorete word; its meaning is stone cave; the concept of kella as a customs used for terracing, beautification of areas, means to defend during war as a coverage. Kelle was established in 1941 Gc. This town is totally covered by beautiful mountains and attractive agro forestery. Lo’oynido and Bewaye are the water feeding rivers that crosses the town.

Kelle is located 202 km south of Awassa and 474 km south of Addis Ababa, 60 kilometers west from the main Awassa-Moyale highway. The infrastructure of the town is in progressive change. There is an automatic telephone service, postal office and banking services. In 2005 Kelle is connected to the main hydroelectric power line and now gets 24 hours of electricity service. Kelle has hospital, college, hotels, restaurants, shops, health centers, private drug stores schools and clean and potable waters. The hospitality of the local resident very attractive.

This coffee is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Chelbesa coffee mill located in the Gedeo Zone. The Gedeo Zone is named after the Gedeo people who are indigenous to this area. Small coffee farmers deliver ripe cherries to the Chelbesa mill where the cherries are carefully selected and immediately placed on raised beds carefully constructed to ensure proper air circulation and temperature control for an optimal drying process. Cherries are also turned regularly on the beds to prevent damage during the drying process.  The cherries are stored in a local warehouse after the moisture is reduced to between 11.5 and 12 percent, and then transported to Addis Ababa where the coffee is milled and exported. While it is included above, Yirgacheffee is too important not to include in this list. Yirgacheffe coffee is considered to be among the best coffee in the world. The town is located in Yirgacheffee is well known for consistently delivering expressive and flavor intensive profiles.

Located in Gedeo zone of the Gedeb district, CHELBESA is one of the finest coffee producing areas within the famous Gedeb Woreda. Known for its dense layered semi-forest vegetation structure.

Encompassing false banana trees as well as shade grown coffee trees, CHELBESA is a great example of best coffee growing agro ecology.