Murcanyo ( so, Muranyo, ar, مورايو), also known as Bander Murcaayo (alternatively ''Bandar Murcaayo'' or ''Bunder Marayah''), is a coastal town in the northeastern

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

province of

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 ...

. It is situated in the autonomous

Puntland Puntland ( so, Puntland, ar, أرض البنط, it, Terra di Punt or ''Paese di Punt''), officially the Puntland State of Somalia ( so, Dowlad Goboleedka Puntland ee Soomaaliya, ar, ولاية أرض البنط الصومالية), is a F ...

region.

Location

Murcanyo is located at , in the

Gulf of Aden The Gulf of Aden ( ar, خليج عدن, so, Gacanka Cadmeed 𐒅𐒖𐒐𐒕𐒌 𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒗𐒒) is a deepwater gulf of the Indian Ocean between Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea to the east, Djibouti to the west, and the Guardafui Channe ...

. It lies 7

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(8 miles) southwest of

Habo Habo () is a locality and the seat of Habo Municipality, Jönköping County Jönköping County ( sv, Jönköpings län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötland, Ka ...

, 18

(21 miles) southwest of

Ras Filuk Ras Filuk ( so, Bolimoog, ar, رأس فيلوك), also known as Cape Elephant, is a headland in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia. It is situated in the autonomous Puntland region. Etymology Ras Filuk (or ''Ras Fil'') means the ''Head of ...

, and 38

(44 miles) east of

Qandala Qandala (also known as Candala, Andala, Bender Chor, Bandar Kor, Bender Kor or Taba Tege) is an ancient port town in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia. Overview Qandala sits on a wadi estuary, which forms a natural protective harbor fo ...

Geography

The town is situated along the beach of a long bay that borders the

. Murcanyo lies at the foot of the Jebel Murcanyo mountains (''Jebel'' meaning mountain in

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), also known as ''Jebel Marayah''. This mountain range stretches across the

region to the

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coastline at

Bargal Bargal ( so, Baargaal, ar, بارجال) is a town in the northeastern Bari region of Puntland, Somalia. Location Bargal is situated in the mountainous Bari province of the autonomous Puntland state. It serves as the center of the Bargal Dis ...

. The range consists of cream-coloured

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, as well as

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shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especial ...

and

quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical form ...

History

Murcanyo was historically an important port town along the northeastern

littoral. It served as a stronghold of Bedouins from the

Majeerteen The Majeerteen ( so, Majeerteen, ar, ماجرتين; also spelled Majerteen, Macherten, Majertain, or Mijurtin) is a sub-clan. It is one of the major Somali groups, with a vast traditional territory spanning 3 major regions of Somalia: Bari, ...

clan.in Murcanyo. Through trading

dhow Dhow ( ar, داو, translit=dāwa; mr, script=Latn, dāw) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region. Typically spor ...

s, the town was connected to a merchant network that included regional ports like

Mukalla Mukalla ( ar, ٱلْمُكَلَّا, ') is a seaport and the capital city of Yemen's largest governorate, Hadhramaut. The city is in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of Aden, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, about east of ...

Jeddah Jeddah ( ), also spelled Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; ar, , Jidda, ), is a city in the Hejaz region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the country's commercial center. Established in the 6th century BC as a fishing village, Jeddah's pro ...

and

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. Local inhabitants produced and exported frankincense, indigo, and mats, and imported items such as dates, a special cloth, rice and metals. In 1790, Murcanyo's resident population was estimated at 8000 to 12000 inhabitants. The town was at the time ruled by the

, which maintained a fort in the area. It also has five mosque. The one of the oldest Mosques was built by Fatah Faahiye Founder and ruler of Murcanyo, which later established an administrative town of Magaala-yar 2KM east of Murcanyo and was one of the economic hub of the Kingdom of Fatah. Murcanyo is a rapidly growing town and is populated mainly by reer Fatah, Osman Mohamud and other Harti clans can be find it.

Administration

On April 8, 2013, the Puntland government announced the creation of a new region coextensive with Murcanyo and

Cape Guardafui Cape Guardafui ( so, Gees Gardafuul, or Raas Caseyr, or Ras Asir, it, Capo Guardafui) is a headland in the autonomous Puntland region in Somalia. Coextensive with Puntland's Gardafuul administrative province, it forms the geographical apex of th ...

, named ''Gardafuul''. Carved out of the

region, it consists of 4 districts.

Education

According to the Puntland Ministry of Education, there is 3 primary school they are Murcayo primary, dayah Primary school, Fatah Fahiye Primary and secondary school Dayah Secondary school Murcanyo

Notes

References

Murcanyo, Somalia
{{Provinces of Puntland , state=expanded Bari, Somalia Headlands of Somalia