Dahana ( tg, Ҷамоати Даҳана) is a village and a
jamoat (rural municipality) in
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
, in central Asia. It is part of the city of
Kulob
Kulob ( tg, Кӯлоб, کولاﺏ, translit=Kûlob/Kūlob), formerly also Kulyab (russian: Куляб, translit=Kuljab), is a city in Khatlon Region, southern Tajikistan. Located southeast of the capital Dushanbe on the river Yakhsu (a right tr ...
in
Khatlon Region
Khatlon Region ( tg, Вилояти Хатлон, ''Viloyati Xatlon''), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan ( tg, вилоят, ''Viloyat''), is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions. It is situated in the southwest ...
. The jamoat has a total population of 29,776 (2015).
[Jamoat-level basic indicators]
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 8 October 2020 Its administrative seat is in the village of Dahana.
The area is almost entirely agricultural, crops and livestock. The farmers utilize the water from the river Yakhsu for irrigation. There is some
artisanal mining
An artisanal miner or small-scale miner (ASM) is a subsistence miner who is not officially employed by a mining company, but works independently, mining minerals using their own resources, usually by hand.
Small-scale mining includes enterprises ...
.
Dahana Jamoat suffers from periodic flooding. In May 2010 unusual heavy precipitation triggered avalanches, floods, mud and rock flows, and landslides throughout Kulob District.
On 7 May 2010, in Yokhsuchiyon village,
mudflow
A mudflow or mud flow is a form of mass wasting involving fast-moving flow of debris that has become liquified by the addition of water. Such flows can move at speeds ranging from 3 meters/minute to 5 meters/second. Mudflows contain a significa ...
s completely destroyed the school building.
[http://www.jahonnamo.tj/en/president/28988-opening-of-secondary-schoolnumber-34-inthe-dahana-village-of-kulob-city.html]
The climate is arid, and the main sectors of the community's economy are cotton, fruit and vegetables, livestock, and grain. The community's lands are irrigated by the Yahsu River and the Dahana River.
The rural community has libraries, houses of culture, mosques, markets for consumer goods, many service facilities, vocational and technical lyceums of agricultural industry, kindergartens, health centers, secondary schools, bank branches, repair shops, small ironworks aqueous, is an oily substance.
Notes
Jamoats of Tajikistan
Populated places in Khatlon Region
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