The Chara also known as the “Ts’ara” are a people group of Ethiopia. They form a part of the  Gimira  peoples of Ethiopia and live in the Kaffa Highlands and the Debub Omo area.
Their three main villages are Geba a meša,  Buna Anta , and Kumba and they practice subsistence farming and hold to a syncretic religion of Oriental Orthodox Christianity with tribal
practices. The Chara people speak their own Chara language a member of the Omotic Language group, which is linguistically similar to  Melo and the numerically much larger Wolaytta both of which many Chara also speak. 
The area is less accessible because of a lack of infrastructure. People use mules and horses for transportation. According to the 1994 census, the Chara community is approximately numbered