Gurara River

	Gurara River Gurara may refer to: * Gurara, Nigeria, a local government area in Nigeria * Gurara (Algeria), or Gourara, a region of Algeria north of the Tuat * Gurara language, a Berber language of Algeria See also * Gurara Waterfalls Gurara Waterfalls is located in Gurara, a local government area of Niger State, North Central Nigeria. The waterfalls is approximately 30 metres in height and it lies on the Gurara River along the Suleja-Minna Road. Myth and folklore Accordin ..., in Nigeria * Basa-Gurara, a language of Nigeria {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gurara, Nigeria Gurara is a Local Government Area in Niger State, Nigeria, adjoining the Federal Capital Territory. Its headquarters are in the town of Gawu. Major inhabitants are the Gwari people. The Gurara Waterfalls is found here. It has an area of 954 km and a population of 90,974 at the 2006 census. The postal code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal a ... of the area is 910. References Local Government Areas in Niger State {{NigerNG-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gurara (Algeria) Tuat, or Touat, is a natural region of desert in central Algeria that contains a string of small oases. In the past, the oases were important for caravans crossing the Sahara. Geography Tuat lies to the south of the Grand Erg Occidental, to the east of the Erg Chech and to the south west of the Tademaït Plateau. It contains a string of small oases strung out along the eastern edge of the Wadi Messaoud, a continuation of the Wadi Saoura. The oases extend over a distance of 160 km from the district of Bouda in the north to Reggane in the south. The largest town in the region is Adrar, 20 km south east of Bouda. Adrar was established by the French after their conquest in 1900 and had a population of 43,903 in 2002. Associated with each oasis are small walled villages called '' ksour'' (singular ''ksar'' or ''gsar''). There are also some forts ('' kasbahs''), most of which have been abandoned. There is almost no rainfall in the region and the agriculture depends on gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gurara Language Gurara (Gourara) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Gourara (''Tigurarin'') region, an archipelago of oases surrounding the town of Timimoun in southwestern Algeria. '' Ethnologue'' gives it the generic name ''Taznatit'' ("Zenati"), along with Tuwat spoken to its south; however, Blench (2006) classifies Gurara as a dialect of Mzab–Wargla and Tuwat as a dialect of the Riff languages. Characteristics Gurara and Tuwat are the only Berber languages to change ''r'' in certain coda positions to a laryngeal ''ħ''; in other contexts it drops ''r'', turning a preceding schwa into ''a'', and this latter phenomenon exists also in Zenata Rif-Berber in the far northern Morocco. There is inconclusive evidence for Songhay influence on Gurara. ''Ahellil'' The local tradition of ''ahellil'' poetry and music in Gurara, described in Mouloud Mammeri's ''L'Ahellil du Gourara'',Mouloud Mammeri, ''L ‘Ahellil du Gourara'', M.S.H.:Paris 1984. has been listed as part of the Intangib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gurara Waterfalls Gurara Waterfalls is located in Gurara, a local government area of Niger State, North Central Nigeria. The waterfalls is approximately 30 metres in height and it lies on the Gurara River along the Suleja-Minna Road. Myth and folklore According to oral history, Gurara Waterfalls was discovered by a Gwari hunter called Buba in 1745 before some Europeans discovered it in 1925 after they found it as a recreation centre. Prior to the discovery of the waterfalls by the Europeans, Gurara Waterfalls was worshipped by people living in communities around it. Oral history also has it that Gurara Waterfalls and Gurara River were named after two deities called Gura and Rara. Tourism Despite its chequered history, Gurara Waterfalls is one of the major tourist sites in Nigeria. There have been plans in recent times to turn it into a resort with a recreation centre and a seven-star hotel around it. See also * List of waterfalls This list of notable waterfalls of the world is so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]