Beledweyne Airport or Haaji-Duqow Ahmed Fiidow Airport is an airport serving

Beledweyne Beledweyne ( so, Beledweyne, ar, بلد وين, it, Belet Uen) is a city in central Somalia. Beledweyne District is the capital city of the Hiran region. The city is situated in the Shebelle Valley riverine near the Ethiopian border, 210 miles ...

(also spelled Belet Uen or Beletweyn, so, Beletweeyne), the

capital city A capital city or capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, Department (country subdivision), department, or other subnational entity, usually as its seat of the government. A capital is typically a city ...

of the Hiran region in

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

. The airport is in the countryside northeast of the city.

Facilities

The airport

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is above

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. It has one

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designated 04/22 with a crushed rock and packed sand surface measuring . As of February 2015, the Djibouti Defense Forces had refurbished the airstrip. The Beledweyne municipality launched a project to further develop the airport in May of that year.

Demographics/population

The broader Beledweyne district has total population of 2 million residents, with the

Hawadle The Hawadle or Xawaadle ( so, Xawaadle, ar, حوادله, it, Auadleh) are a Somali clan who traces its descent from Mayle Gorgaarte, one of the sons of Hawiye clan. The Hawadle, as well as many other Somali clans like the Dir, trace themselv ...

subclan of

Hawiye The Hawiye ( so, Hawiye, ar, بنو هوية, it, Hauija) is the largest Somali clan family. Members of this clan traditionally inhabit central and southern Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia ( Somali, Harar, Oromia and Afar regions) and the Nor ...

well represented making up 25% of the city's population. The airport was named after the well known Elder Duqow Ahmed Fiidow of the Aadan-Warsame subclan of Xawaadle clan, which is considered to be the major and dominant clan of the Hiiraan region, predominantly Baledwayne.

Climate

Beledweyne has a

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(

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''BWh''). Between March and April, the average daily maximum temperature in the city is . In January and February, the average daily minimum temperature is .

References

External links

OpenStreetMap - Belet Uen Airport

Aeronautical chart
at SkyVector * {{authority control Airports in Somalia Hiran, Somalia

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