Jowsheqan va Kamu ( fa, جوشقان وكامو, meaning "Jowsheqan and Kamu") is a city in
Qamsar District Qamsar District ( fa, بخش قمصر) is a district (bakhsh) in Kashan County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 10,812, in 3,409 families. The District has two cities: Qamsar and Jowshaqan va Kamu. The District has ...
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Kashan County
Kashan County ( fa, شهرستان کاشان) is in Isfahan province, Isfahan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Kashan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 297,000 in 81,816 households. Retrieved 26 October ...
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Isfahan Province,
Iran
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. At the 2006 census, its population was 5,477, in 1,730 families.
The city is an amalgam of two earlier settlements, Jowsheqan ( fa, جوشقان, also
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d as Jowsheqān; also known as Jowsheqān-e Qālī, Jowshaqān-e-Qālī, and Jūshqān Qāli) and Kamu (Persian: کامو, also Romanized as Kāmū and Qamu).
The district is primarily agricultural. The water is supplied by local springs, the river Kan, and subterranean channels (kāriz). Major products are those of the cool (sardsir) climate. The farmers cultivate rose for extraction of rosewater (golāb), which is now a growing business in the region. Jowshaqān has marble quarries, the exploitation of which has been the major industrial activity in the district
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Populated places in Kashan County
Cities in Isfahan Province
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