Kelafo

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Kalafo (also Qallaafo, Kallafo, K'elafo and other spellings ) is a small town in Ethiopia's Somali region, with 14,242 inhabitants in 2005. Lies on the River Shabelle and is the capital of the woreda Kalafo in the Gode zone.

Kalafo is repeatedly affected by flooding of the Shabelle. Historically, as the entire region, coupled with today's Somalia was. Approximately 1550 to 1650 was Kalafo capital of a state of the Somali Ajuran clan, which reached from the coast at Mogadishu over the lower Shabeelle Valley to its commercial center Hobyo, before due Portuguese raids, internal political difficulties and the encroachment of nomads from the north experienced a decline.

1997 there were 9,551 inhabitants of 96.85 % Somali. The Somali in Kalafo are mainly from the clans of the Darod and the Hawiye Ogadeni - as well as of the ethnic minority Rer Bare.

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  • Place in Somaliland
  • Place in Africa
Somali (Region) Districts of Ethiopia Gode-Zone
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