El Buur (; so, Ceelbuur) is a town located in the state of
Galmudug
Galmudug ( ar, جلمدج; it, Galmudugh), officially Galmudug State of Somalia ( so, Dowlad Goboleedka Galmudug ee Somalia, Soomaaliya), is a States and regions of Somalia, Federal Member State in central Somalia, with its capital at Dhusamareb. ...
in central
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...
. It was formerly the capital of the
Galgaduud region.
Residents
El Buur has been inhabited since at least the 13th century. During the
Ajuran Sultanate it served as a local commercial hub.
The area is particularly noted as a center for
quarrying
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their e ...
. Here,
meerschaum (
sepiolite), used to make the
Somali people
The Somalis ( so, Soomaalida 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, ar, صوماليون) are an ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history. The Lowland East Cushitic Somali language is the shared ...
's trademark
dabqaad incense burner, is mined.
[Abdullahi, pp.98-99][Alietti, A., Brigatti, M.F., Poppi, L. (1985) Sepiolite deposits of the El-Bur, Galgudund Area, Central Somalia https://arcadia.sba.uniroma3.it/handle/2307/5458] El Buur is also the site of the local pipe-making industry.
This city is inhabited by the
Murusade clan.
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References
Populated places in Galguduud
Galmudug
Mining communities in Africa
Mining in Somalia
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