Kundudo

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rdf:langString Kundudo or Kondudo Ego (rarely spelt as Qundudo) is a flat top mountain (or amba) in the Fafan Zone of the Somali region of Ethiopia. Part of the 13-kilometre (8 mi) range that bears its name, its summit lies east of the walled city of Harar, About 30km northwest of Jijiga area Fafan Highland district with a height of nearly 3,000 metres (9,800 ft).It is the highest peak of the Eastern Ethiopian Highlands, after the Bale region Mountain range in Jarso Wordea further south. The Highland Region has a mountain peak forest of junipers, African Oaks, Olive trees, Ceader trees, and other Subtropical highland species, that are found all over the highlands of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Western Yemen. It is a very fertile area probably the most fertile east of the central Highlands, it has a Subtropical Highland climate with 2 main rainy reasons short dry seasons in the winter with occasional rain in the higher elevations. The area on average receives around 750-1000mm of rain per year. Since ancient times, it was known to be a strong hold of the Dir clan of the Somali Akisho more specifically, especially the Sub tribes called the Ego, Warre Miyo and Ejo who primarily live around that area from Awdal region, Gabilay area in Somali Territory and near the border regions, all the way to Jijiga going west deeper into the Ethiopian highlands up to the hinterland of Addis Abba slightly past the Rift Valley, Along with other Dir tribes and some Hawyie. The Akisho are a primarily agricultural tribe who farm their fertile highland territories on these mountain chains in eastern Ethiopia. They are one of the most heavily agricultural Somali tribes who invented many agricultural practices among the Somalis of the Hararghe province and Somaliland, they terrace the Hill sides for maximum Agricultural productivity this is an ancient practice to flood fields and irrigate them to keep in water during the dry season who live primarily isolated from there Somali brethren in this area, the western extant of Somali inhabited territory, some of the Akisho speak Afaan Oromo although in this area they are mostly bilingual in both Somali and Oromo. In the same range, the Goba tarara (a term for mountain) holds a vast cave known since the nineteen hundreds, whilst at the southern end the Stinico tarara holds ancient engravings, unknown until 2008, in two recently studied small open caves. The summit is a flat grassland at the very top forest closer to the bottom that continues to the Erer river which flows to Harar and Jijiga 13 hectares (32 acres) in area, and is the habitat of the only remaining feral horse population of East Africa, one of only two on the continent. Below Kondudo lie the localities of Fugnan Bira (also named Gursum), Ego Feres, Fugnan Hujuba, Ejersa Goro, Bedada, Goba, Sakhare and Yaya Guda. Nearby is also a shrine and a singular design mosque named by the locals after Sheikh Adem Goba.