Livestock production is essential for household food security in pastoralist areas since they usesrntheir products directly to exchange with other household commodities. Yabello Woreda is one ofrnthe pastoral Woredas found in southern part of Ethiopia. For many centuries, these rangelandsrnwere productive. However, high population growth which resulted in increasing demand forrnarable land, increasing land use conflicts, land degradation and bush encroachment in thernstudy area led to reduced amount of land for natural grazing and forage production.rnImproper land use results in land degradation and decline in agricultural productivity. Hence,rnin order to get maximum benefit out of land, proper utilization of its resources is inevitable.rnTherefore, land suitability analysis is needed in order to make proper land use planning.rnGeographic Information System and Remote Sensing offer a convenient and powerful platformrnto integrate spatially complex and different land attributes for performing land suitabilityrnanalysis and land allocations. This study is intended to analyze and map suitable areas forrnlivestock in Yabello Woreda using Geographic information system and Remote Sensingrntechniques. For this study, seven suitability factors; Altitude, feed biomass, rainfall, landrnuse/land cover, soil, temperature and slope were considered. To arrive at final suitability resultrnfor each livestock, weighted overlay technique of Multi-criteria evaluation in a Geographicalrninformation system platform was used. For the case of land allocation for livestock species, arnvector (union) module was used. Livestock density was visualized using dot density map. Thernresult of the suitability analysis showed that, 13%, 11%, 3%and 7% of study area was highlyrnsuitable for cattle, sheep, goat and camel respectively. In addition, 78%, 52%, 79% and 75% ofrnthe land was classified as moderately suitable for cattle, sheep, goat and camel respectively.rnWhile, 4%, 32%, 13% and 12% was marginally suitable for cattle, sheep, goat and camelrnrespectively. There is no parcel of land classified as currently not suitable nor permanently notrnsuitable. In the case of land allocation, 22 % and 77% were allocated as highly suitable andrnmoderately suitable respectively for a single species or a combination of them. Thus, the studyrnshows that the greater portions of Yabello Rangelands have moderate suitability for livestockrnproduction.rnKeywords: GIS and Remote Sensing techniques, Yabello Woreda, Suitability analysis, Multicriteriarnevaluation, Livestock