The Ogo Mountains, also known as the Galgodon Highlands, (, ) are a mountain range in Somaliland. They cross the

Sanaag Sanag ( so, Sanaag, ar, سَنَاج) is an administrative region ('' gobol'') in north eastern Somaliland.Regions o ...

and

Togdheer Togdheer ( so, Togdheer, ar, تُوْجْدَيْر, Tūjdayr) is an administrative region ('' gobol'') in central Somaliland. Togdheer is bordered by Maroodi Jeex to the west, Saaxil to the north, Sanaag to the northeast, Sool to the east a ...

regions. With a mean peak height of , the ecology of this landform is semi-desert.

Ecology

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 The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by t ...

's monsoon winds, resulting in a rainy season that lasts from June until mid-September.

Climate

The average annual temperature in the Ogo Mountains is . Precipitation reaches a maximum in March, with a minimum of rainfall in August. The average annual precipitation around . The data provided below derives from the Gudaado station. It illustrates a subtropical highland climate with strong continental

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...

characteristics (

Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...

: "''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 The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the ...

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.

References

Sanaag Togdheer Mountain ranges of Somaliland Somali montane xeric woodlands {{Somaliland-geo-stub

Ecology

Climate

See also

References