Ghubbah (; alt. Gubba or Ghoba) is a village on the main island of

Socotra Socotra or Soqotra (; ar, سُقُطْرَىٰ ; so, Suqadara) is an island of the Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, under the ''de facto'' control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, a secessionist participant in Yemen’s ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

in the

Hidaybu District Hidaybu District () is one of two districts of the Socotra Governorate, Yemen. It occupies the eastern part of the main island of Socotra archipelago. It is named after its capital and the principal town of the archipelago, the town of Hidaybu (Ha ...

. Located at the north-west coast halfway between

Hadibu Hadibu ( ar, حديبو '), also known as Hadiboh, formerly known as Tamrida ( ar, links=no, تمريدة), is a coastal town in northern Socotra, Yemen. It is not far from the mount ''Jabal al-Jahir''. It is the largest town of the small archipe ...

and

Qulensya Qulensya (; alt. Qalansiyah, Qalansia) is a town on the main island of Socotra, Yemen. Its approximate population is 4,000. History The area around Qulensya is host to several petroglyph sites created at an undetermined time. One site called Si ...

, it is situated on a barren coralline plateau 5 m above sea level. The settlement has a

cenote A cenote ( or ; ) is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater. The regional term is specifically associated with the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where cenotes were commonly used for ...

located between its ''Awdaf'' neighbourhood and the sea. It is of deep blue colour and has an oval measurement of 50 m x 40 m and is 37 m deep. Fresh water feeds into it from the sea.John & Valerie Middleton, Karst & Caves on Soqotra Island, in: YRC Journal, Series 13, Issue 7, Summer 2009, pp.35-46. Another water pool is located just south of the main road bypassing the village. It is a brackish and muddy salty sink hole of larger dimensions, 120 m x 90 m but barely 2 m deep. On the shallow surrounding ledges the villagers have built small salt evaporation pans for salt winning. This water pool is also dubbed ''Socotra Crater'' as some scholars hold that it is a meteor crater. But this theory is controversial. In the area of Ghubbah are ongoing initiatives to replant and to restore Grey Mangroves.Mangrove replantantion project in Ghubbah
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{{Reflist Populated places in Socotra Socotra Governorate

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