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The tabia centre is in Mitslal Afras village, located approximately 20\u00a0km to the east of the woreda town Hagere Selam.Table of ContentsGeography[edit]Geology[edit]Geomorphology and soils[edit]Climate[edit]Hydrology[edit]Settlements[edit]Agriculture and livelihood[edit]History and culture[edit]History[edit]Religion and churches[edit]Inda Siwa, the local beer houses[edit]Roads and communication[edit]Schools[edit]Tourism[edit]Touristic attraction[edit]Geotouristic sites[edit]Birdwatching[edit]Trekking route[edit]Accommodation and facilities[edit]More detailed information[edit]References[edit]Geography[edit]The tabia a hilly limestone area, along Giba River, north and away from the main road. The highest peak is Miqmat’ Awra hill that occupies the centre (2195 m a.s.l.) and the lowest place at the outlet of May Qarano to Giba river (1750 m a.s.l.).  Quarry in Antalo Limestone at the lower, southern border of Emni AnkelaluGeology[edit]The following geological formations are present:[1]Geomorphology and soils[edit]The main geomorphic unit is the gently undulating Agula shale plateau with dolerite. Corresponding soil types are:[4]Dominant soil type: stony, dark cracking clays with good natural fertility (Vertic Cambisol)Associated soil typesrock outcrops, stony and shallow soils (Lithic Leptosol)red-brownish loamy soils with good natural fertility (Chromic Luvisol)Inclusionsdeep, dark cracking clays on calcaric material with good fertility but poor drainage (Vertisol)Climate[edit]The rainfall pattern shows a very high seasonality with 70 to 80% of the annual rain falling in July and August. Mean temperature in Mitslal Afras is 20.8\u00a0\u00b0C, oscillating between average daily minimum of 12.4\u00a0\u00b0C and maximum of 30.8\u00a0\u00b0C. The contrasts between day and night air temperatures are much larger than seasonal contrasts.[5]Hydrology[edit]  In this area with rains that last only for a couple of months per year, the only permanent water is in Giba river. There are hardly any springs.[6] Hence, reservoirs of different sizes allow harvesting runoff from the rainy season for further use in the dry season.[7]There are traditional surface water harvesting ponds, particularly in places without permanent springs, called rahaya, and also horoyo, household ponds, recently constructed through campaigns.[8]  Giba dam building site in 2019A major change is the construction of Lake Giba, a 350 million m\u00b3 reservoir on the Giba river that will occupy the whole lower eastern side of the tabia. The reservoir is  mainly intended to provide water to Mekelle. The lithology of the dam building site is Antalo Limestone.[9] Part of its water is anticipated to be lost through seepage;[10] the positive side-effect is that this will contribute to groundwater recharge and river baseflow in the downstream areas, which largely belong to tabias Addi Azmera and Debre Nazret.[7] The lower villages of Emni Ankelalu will see their environment changed from dryland to lakeshore villages.Settlements[edit]The tabia centre Mitslal Afras holds a few administrative offices, a health post, a primary school, and some small shops. There are a few more primary schools across the tabia. The main other populated places are:[11]Agriculture and livelihood[edit]The population lives essentially from crop farming, supplemented with off-season work in nearby towns. The land is dominated by farmlands which are clearly demarcated and are cropped every year. Hence the agricultural system is a permanent upland farming system.[12] The farmers have adapted their cropping systems to the spatio-temporal variability in rainfall.[13]History and culture[edit]History[edit]The history of the tabia is strongly confounded with the history of Tembien.Religion and churches[edit]Most inhabitants are Orthodox Christians. The following churches are located in the tabia:Kidane MihretMiqmat’Awra MaryamInda Siwa, the local beer houses[edit]In the main villages, there are traditional beer houses (Inda Siwa), often in unique settings, which are a good place for resting and chatting with the local people. Most renown in the tabia is Kndahafti Mezegebe’s inn at Mitslal Afras.[6]Roads and communication[edit]The main road Mekelle \u2013 Hagere Selam \u2013 Abiy Addi runs some kilometres south of the tabia.Schools[edit]Almost all children of the tabia are schooled,[14] though in some schools there is lack of classrooms, directly related to the large intake in primary schools over the last decades.[15] Schools in the tabia include Mitslal Afras school.Tourism[edit]Its mountainous nature and proximity to Mekelle makes the tabia fit for tourism.[16]Touristic attraction[edit]Geotouristic sites[edit]The high variability of geological formations and the rugged topography invites for geological and geographic tourism or “geotourism”.[17] Geosites in the tabia include:Confluence of Sulluh and Genfel rivers, inside deep gorges, called “Shugu’a Shugu’i”May Qarano tufa dam (now occupied by the Giba dam building works)ExclosuresLimestone landscapeLimestone quarriesBirdwatching[edit]Birdwatching (for the species, see the main Dogu’a Tembien page) can be done particularly in exclosures and forests. The following bird-watching sites have been inventoried[18] in the tabia and mapped.[11]Mitlal Afras church forestMiq’mat Awra church forestSlope forest west of Miq’mat AwraTrekking route[edit]Trekking route 24 has been established in this tabia.[19] It follows the Giba and Suluh gorges upstream along the rivers, and then continues westbound over Miqmat’ Awra hill. Once the Lake Giba will be filled, it will be impossible to visit these gorges. The track is not marked on the ground but can be followed using downloaded .GPX files.[20]Accommodation and facilities[edit]The facilities are very basic.[21]  One may be invited to spend the night in a rural homestead or ask permission to pitch a tent. Hotels are available in Hagere Selam and Mekelle.More detailed information[edit]For more details on environment, agriculture, rural sociology, hydrology, ecology, culture, etc., see the overall page on the Dogu’a Tembien district.References[edit]^ Sembroni, A.; Molin, P.; Dramis, F. (2019). Regional geology of the Dogu’a Tembien massif. In: Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains – The Dogu’a Tembien District. SpringerNature. ISBN\u00a0978-3-030-04954-6.^ Tefera, M.; Chernet, T.; Haro, W. Geological Map of Ethiopia (1:2,000,000). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Ethiopian Institute of Geological Survey.^ Moeyersons, J. and colleagues (2006). “Age and backfill\/overfill stratigraphy of two tufa dams, Tigray Highlands, Ethiopia: Evidence for Late Pleistocene and Holocene wet conditions”. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 230 (1\u20132): 162\u2013178. 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Geo-trekking map of Dogu’a Tembien (1:50,000). In: Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains – The Dogu’a Tembien District. SpringerNature. ISBN\u00a0978-3-030-04954-6.^ Naudts, J (2002). Les Hautes Terres de Tembien, Tigr\u00e9, Ethiopie; R\u00e9sistance et limites d’une ancienne civilisation agraire; Cons\u00e9quences sur la d\u00e9gradation des terres [MSc dissertation]. CNEARC, Montpellier, France.^ Frankl, A. and colleagues (2013). “The effect of rainfall on spatio\u2010temporal variability in cropping systems and duration of crop cover in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands”. Soil Use and Management. 29 (3): 374\u2013383. doi:10.1111\/sum.12041. hdl:1854\/LU-3123393. S2CID\u00a095207289.^ Socio-demographic profile, food insecurity and food-aid based response. In: Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains – The Dogu’a Tembien District. GeoGuide. SpringerNature. 2019. doi:10.1007\/978-3-030-04955-3. ISBN\u00a0978-3-030-04954-6. 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ISBN\u00a0978-3-030-04954-6.^ Nyssen, Jan (2019). Description of Trekking Routes in Dogu’a Tembien. GeoGuide. Springer-Nature. pp.\u00a0557\u2013675. doi:10.1007\/978-3-030-04955-3_38. ISBN\u00a0978-3-030-04954-6. S2CID\u00a0199271514.^ “Public GPS Traces tagged with nyssen-jacob-frankl”.^ Nyssen, Jan (2019). “Logistics for the Trekker in a Rural Mountain District of Northern Ethiopia”. Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains. GeoGuide. Springer-Nature. pp.\u00a0537\u2013556. doi:10.1007\/978-3-030-04955-3_37. ISBN\u00a0978-3-030-04954-6. S2CID\u00a0199198251.Places adjacent to Emni Ankelalu"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/emni-ankelalu-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Emni Ankelalu – Wikipedia"}}]}]