The Ogo Mountains (Ogo Highlands), also known as the Galgodon Highlands, (Somali: Buuraha Oogo, Arabic: جبل أوغو) are a mountain range in Somaliland.
This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2018) |
They cross the Sanaag and Togdheer regions. With a mean peak height of 2,450 m (8,040 ft), the ecology of this landform is semi-desert.
Ogo Mountains Galgodon Highlands Buuraha Oogo جَبَل أوغو | |
---|---|
Highest point | |
Peak | Shimbiris |
Elevation | 2,450 m (8,040 ft) |
Coordinates | 10°44′03.3″N 47°13′56.6″E / 10.734250°N 47.232389°E |
Geography | |
Country | |
Regions | Sanaag and Togdheer |
According to the CULTURAL ORIENTATION SOMALI published by the Defense Language Institute in 2020, the Golis Mountains is another name for the Galgala Hills, part of the Karkaar mountain range, and the Ogo Highlands are south of the Karkaar mountain range. However, the areas to which these place names refer vary from literature to literature.
Due to the Ogo Mountains' elevated, highland location in Somaliland, the range has an unexpectedly temperate climate. The mountains also catch the precipitation of the Indian Ocean's monsoon winds, resulting in a rainy season that lasts from June until mid-September.[citation needed]
The average annual temperature in the Ogo Mountains is 20 to 26 °C (68 to 79 °F). Precipitation reaches a maximum in March, with a minimum of rainfall in August. The average annual precipitation around 500–700 mm (20–28 in).
The data provided below derives from the Gudaado station. It illustrates a subtropical highland climate with strong continental Mediterranean characteristics (Köppen: "Cwb"), given the two marked wet seasons that span between March–May and September–November, albeit the latter being briefer and more subtle. The climatic situation here is most similar to the Altiplano region, due to its semi-arid patterns of rain, huge diurnal temperature variations, adjacence to the Somali desert, and seasonal variations that are neither too cold nor too hot in the extremes.
Climate data for Gudaado (10°44'03.3"N 47°13'56.6"E) (elev. 2239 metres above sea level) | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 22.6 (72.7) | 23.7 (74.7) | 24.1 (75.4) | 23.8 (74.8) | 24.6 (76.3) | 27.1 (80.8) | 27.1 (80.8) | 26.9 (80.4) | 26.4 (79.5) | 23.0 (73.4) | 22.3 (72.1) | 22.2 (72.0) | 24.5 (76.1) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.7 (62.1) | 17.8 (64.0) | 19.0 (66.2) | 19.6 (67.3) | 20.0 (68.0) | 22.0 (71.6) | 22.3 (72.1) | 22.1 (71.8) | 21.3 (70.3) | 18.1 (64.6) | 17.0 (62.6) | 16.4 (61.5) | 19.4 (66.8) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 11.7 (53.1) | 12.8 (55.0) | 14.3 (57.7) | 15.6 (60.1) | 16.1 (61.0) | 17.3 (63.1) | 17.8 (64.0) | 17.8 (64.0) | 17.1 (62.8) | 13.9 (57.0) | 12.5 (54.5) | 11.6 (52.9) | 14.9 (58.8) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 9 (0.4) | 17 (0.7) | 58 (2.3) | 160 (6.3) | 140 (5.5) | 6 (0.2) | 1 (0.0) | 3 (0.1) | 22 (0.9) | 90 (3.5) | 35 (1.4) | 12 (0.5) | 553 (21.8) |
Source: Climate Data |
This article uses material from the Wikipedia English article Ogo Mountains, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.