Gedo

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Gedo (Somali: Gedo; Arabic: ‎ Ghidū) is an administrative region (gobolka) in southwestern Somalia. Its capital is Garbahaarreey. Gedo is the second largest region of Somalia after Bari and is bordered by Ethiopia, Kenya, and the Somali regions of Bakool, Bay, and Middle Juba. Gedo is part of the larger historical region of Jubaland. Gedo region's population exploded last twenty years reaching almost one million early 1990s after the civil war erupted in Mogadishu, most of the newcomers suddenly left and resettled different parts of world.

Contents

1 Gedo Districts

1.1 Baardheere and Buuloxaawo

2 Population
3 Commerce in Gedo
4 Landscape
5 References

Gedo Districts

The region consists of six districts, namely Garbahaareey, Beledhawo, Luuq, Bardhere, Doollow and Ceelwaaq. The regional capital is Garbaharey. Gedo region is fertile land, with two rivers Dawa and Juba. Dawa river runs on the border between Ethiopia and Gedo region Dolow town sits on Dawa's fertile river Banks. Juba river starts from Luq, then follows to Burdubo, Bardera then to Bu'aale and Jilib of Middle Juba region.

Baardheere and Buuloxaawo

The most populous towns in Gedo are Baardheera and Buuloxaawo. Buuloxaawo is the commercial town of the region and the neighboring regions, while Baardheera is the breadbasket of the region. Agricultural products from this fertile land, which include maize, potatoes, sorghum, bananas, tobaco, sesame, fruits and onions, are shipped to many different parts of the country.

Population

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According to a 1994 United Nations reports, the estimated population of Gedo was 690,000. (Note: PDF file)according to the nomadic culture of the people and their movement these numbers can decrease or increase over time.

Commerce in Gedo

Most of the population are pastoralists and farmers, but Gedo has strong Interregional and cross-border trade, the Town of Beledhaawo is the commercial gate of Mogadishu and Kenya, large manufactured goods cross both sides of the border everyday going to and coming from the rest of Somalia.

Gedo is famous for its agricultural production in the south. The farming land is mostly concentrated in four towns and these are Dolow, Luq, Burdubo and Bardera.

Landscape

The Gedo region in Somalia is a vast land with a varied landscape. In the middle of the region one finds ancient sacred land with gorges in all directions and rocky mountains. These gorges are filled with eastern-downstream rain waters. On the lower southern portion of Gedo region is red sandy flat land from Bardere district on the Juba Valley all the way down south to El Wak town on the border with Kenya’s Northern Frontier District, a district mainly populated by Somalis through the ages.

There are plenty of the four most popular Somali livestock roaming the land. These are camels, cattle'sheeps.This mixture of livestock is called Ari in Somali and means a mixture of goats and sheep with in most cases in the hundreds per family, also Gedo region is famous for its horse breading large number of horses can be founded Dirharra area near town of Damase,of Elwak district.

The mountain areas of the region have sizable safari animals from elephants to cheetahs. It’s not rare to hear lion's roar during the night hours.

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