As Eyla
As Eyla ايلى | |
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Town | |
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Coordinates:11°00′N42°06′E/ 11.000°N 42.100°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Region | Dikhil |
Elevation | 253 m (830 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 12,000 |
As Ela,As Eyla(Arabic:ايلى), It is located around 160 kilometres (99 miles) southwest of the capital,Djibouti Cityand 5 km (3 miles) north of the border withEthiopia.[1]It is located along theNational Highway 6.Tourist richness which the crater formedLake Abbe,As' Eyla Province is located within the boundaries.
Demographics
[edit]As of 2016, the population of As Eyla has been estimated to be 17,000. The town inhabitants belong to various mainlyAfro-Asiatic-speaking ethnic groups (Afar and Somali-Issa),
History
[edit]Asa Ragid
[edit]On Asa Ragid site, the material found consists of shell middens from oysters, basalt rhyolite peaks whose dating for older, is at 5000–5800 years BC Also circular stone structures and amicrolithic industryred jasper and obsidian and pottery shards more or less decorated beads andostrich eggshell. As for the site ofAsa Koma(Red Hill) near to As Eyla, he revealed a life towards the end of the third millennium with a population of fishermen who hunted jackal, raised cattle and made pottery decorated with prints and chiseled features of good quality and which shapes and colors are similar to ceramics found in Sudan. It was discovered in 1989 a burial of an elderly adult and a young woman of 18. Many lithic obsidian and bone tools and beads of ostrich egg shells or shells of the Red Sea. Also animal bones, especially jackals, hippos rarely or gazelles, antelopes and domestic cattle and bones of fish (tilapia and catfish). Spread throughout the country and in more recent times are the cairn housing Graves (hundreds in the north). In one of these mounds inBalho,we found a fragment of cranium from the early first millennium BC The diversity of these burials attests different periods to which they relate.
French Somaliland
[edit]The village was originally built on the plain of Gobaad near awadi,with houses constructed of mud and stone, before the French arrived. From 1862 until 1894, the land to the north of theGulf of Tadjourawas calledObockand was ruled by Somali and Afar Sultans, local authorities with whomFrancesigned varioustreatiesbetween 1883 and 1887 to first gain a foothold in theregion.The French colonial authorities built agarrisonstation in 1934. Anelementary school] was established in the village in 1949, and there were several shops. Most of the inhabitants earned their living throughanimalhusbandry andcommerce,and used awellfor drinking water.
Climate
[edit]Climate data for As Eyla | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30.0 (86.0) |
30.4 (86.7) |
32.7 (90.9) |
34.6 (94.3) |
37.9 (100.2) |
40.1 (104.2) |
39.4 (102.9) |
38.2 (100.8) |
37.3 (99.1) |
34.6 (94.3) |
31.8 (89.2) |
30.4 (86.7) |
34.8 (94.6) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 24.9 (76.8) |
25.9 (78.6) |
27.8 (82.0) |
29.7 (85.5) |
32.5 (90.5) |
34.7 (94.5) |
33.3 (91.9) |
32.5 (90.5) |
32.5 (90.5) |
29.4 (84.9) |
26.6 (79.9) |
25.2 (77.4) |
29.6 (85.2) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 19.9 (67.8) |
21.4 (70.5) |
23.1 (73.6) |
24.7 (76.5) |
27.3 (81.1) |
29.3 (84.7) |
27.1 (80.8) |
26.7 (80.1) |
27.9 (82.2) |
24.1 (75.4) |
21.3 (70.3) |
20.2 (68.4) |
24.4 (76.0) |
Averageprecipitationmm (inches) | 5 (0.2) |
9 (0.4) |
15 (0.6) |
30 (1.2) |
9 (0.4) |
3 (0.1) |
34 (1.3) |
44 (1.7) |
24 (0.9) |
9 (0.4) |
3 (0.1) |
2 (0.1) |
187 (7.4) |
Source 1:Climate-Data.org[2] | |||||||||||||
Source 2:Levoyageur[3] |
References
[edit]- ^Directory of Cities and Towns in Djibouti
- ^"Climate: `As `Ela - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table".Climate-Data.org.Retrieved25 September2016.
- ^"DJIBOUTI - AS-EYLA: Climate, weather, temperatures".Levoyageur.Retrieved15 September2016.