Country Djibouti Elevation 253 m | Region Dikhil Local time Sunday 10:16 PM | |
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Weather 29°C, Wind E at 16 km/h, 44% Humidity | ||
`As `Ela or As Eyla is a town in Djibouti. Located in the Dikhil region, it has an estimated population of 684 people. It is located along the N6 highway. Tourist richness which the crater formed, Lake Abbe, As' Eyla Province is located within the boundaries.
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Map of As Evla, Djibouti
Demographics
As of 2013, the population of As Eyla has been estimated to be 684. The town inhabitants belong to various mainly Afro-Asiatic-speaking ethnic groups, but the Issa and the Afar are predominant.
History
On Asa Ragid site, the material found consists of shell middens from oysters, basalt rhyolite peaks whose dating for older, is at 5000–5800 years BC Also circular stone structures and a microlithic industry red jasper and obsidian and pottery shards more or less decorated beads and ostrich egg shell. As for the site of Asa Koma (Red Hill) near to As Eyla, he revealed a life towards the end of the third millennium with a population of fishermen who hunted jackal, raised cattle and made pottery decorated with prints and chiseled features of good quality and which shapes and colors are similar to ceramics found in Sudan. It was discovered in 1989 a burial of an elderly adult and a young woman of 18. Many lithic obsidian and bone tools and beads of ostrich egg shells or shells of the Red Sea. Also animal bones, especially jackals, hippos rarely or gazelles, antelopes and domestic cattle and bones of fish (tilapia and catfish). Spread throughout the country and in more recent times are the cairn housing Graves (hundreds in the north). In one of these mounds in Balho, we found a fragment of cranium from the early first millennium BC The diversity of these burials attests different periods to which they relate.