Ogaden Desert topographic map

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Ogaden Desert

The Ogaden is a plateau, with an elevation above sea level that ranges from 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) in the northwest, falling to about 300 metres (980 ft) along the southern limits and the Wabi Shebelle valley. The areas with altitudes between 1,400 and 1,600 metres (4,600 and 5,200 ft) are characterised as semi-arid, receiving as much as 500–600 millimetres (20–24 in) of rainfall annually. More typical of the Ogaden is an average annual rainfall of 350 millimetres (14 in) and less. The landscape consists of dense shrubland, bush grassland and bare hills. In more recent years, the Ogaden has suffered from increasingly erratic rainfall patterns, which has led to an increasing frequency of major droughts: in 1984–85; 1994; and most recently in 1999–2000, during which pastoralists claim to have lost 70–90 percent of their cattle. It also includes another region in the north known as Haud.

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Name: Ogaden Desert topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Ogaden Desert, Dollo, Somali Region, Ethiopia (7.51600 46.28746 7.51610 46.28756)

Average elevation: 1,916 ft

Minimum elevation: 1,890 ft

Maximum elevation: 1,946 ft

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