Danot () is one of the

woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas (; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''List of zones of Ethiopia, zones'' and the ''Regions of Ethiopia, regional states''. These districts are f ...

s in the

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Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

, named after its major town, Danot. Part of the

Werder Zone Dollo () is one of the nine zones in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. It was previously known as Warder/Werder, so named after its largest city, Warder. Dollo is bordered on the southwest by Korahe, on the northwest by Jarar, and on the southeas ...

, Danot is bordered on the south by Werder, on the west by the Korahe Zone, on the northwest by the

Degehabur Zone Jarar () is a Zones of Ethiopia, zone in Somali Region of Ethiopia. It was previously known as the Degehabur zone, so named after its largest city, Degehabur. Jarar Zone is bordered on the south by Korahe Zone, Korahe, on the southwest by Fiq Zo ...

, on the north by

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, on the east by Boh, and on the southeast by Galadi.

Overview

Danot was important locally for its wells, which were used by the nomadic pastoralists with the advent of the dry season. However, the construction of private ''birkas'' (underground concrete water tanks) in adjacent woredas, a development which started in the 1950s and later on dramatically increased after the 1970s, offered a solution to the absence of permanent water, and reduced somewhat the importance of these wells. While this encouraged ''birka'' owners to further diversify traditional animal husbandry beyond camels and small ruminants into water-dependent cattle, this also increased livestock population in an overpopulated region, putting additional pressure on shrinking resource base. Danot is exclusively inhabited by the Ibrahim (sub-clan) of Ogaden, Reer Sheekh Abbayoonis of Geri Koombe, and Reer Cawl of the Muse Ismail and Reer Caynashe both being sub clans of the Habar Yoonis, which in the bushy grazing area, where there had been numerous conflicts over control of territory. This agreement between the 2 clans made Danot the border between them and that each could construct 16 ''birkas'' .

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the

Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency, also known as the Ethiopian Statistical Service (ESS; Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ስታቲስቲክስ አገልግሎት), is an Ethiopian government agency designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that ...

of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 47,236, of whom 26,749 are men and 20,487 women. While 1,153 or 2.44% are urban inhabitants, a further 24,913 or 52.74% are pastoralists. 99.5% of the population said they were

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. The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 39,951, of whom 22,166 were men and 17,785 were women; 668 or 1.67% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Boh was the Somali 39,940 (99.98%).''1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1''
Tables 2.1, 2.12 (accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.

Notes

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