Naasa Hablood ( so, Naaso Hablood), also known as Virgin's Breast Mountain, are twin hills situated in
Maroodi Jeex
Marodi Jeh ( so, Maroodi Jeex, ar, مرودي جيح) is an administrative region ('' gobol'') in western Somaliland. It is the most populous region of the country. It is bordered by Awdal to the west, Sahil to the north, Togdheer to the eas ...
,
Somaliland. Located on the outskirts of the city of
Hargeisa
Hargeisa (; so, Hargeysa, ar, هرجيسا) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Somaliland. It is located in the Maroodi Jeex region of the Horn of Africa. It succeeded Burco as the capital of the British Somaliland Protector ...
, they are made up of
granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...
and
sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class o ...
. The hills were dubbed ''Naasa Hablood'' (lit. "girl's breasts") due to their distinctive conical shape and resemblance to
thelarchic breast buds.
[Mirreh, Abdirahman. A Gob Tree Beside the Hargeisa Wadi: Book Two of Songs of a Nomad Son: a Collection of Poems 1983 to 1994. Vol. 2. Tuba Press, 2001.]
See also
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Breast-shaped hills
Notes
References
Nasa Hablood, Somalia
External links
Geography of Somaliland
Mountain ranges of Somaliland
Geography of Somalia
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