Chianguva

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Chianguva
Waters Indian Ocean
Archipelago Bajuni Islands
Geographical location 0 ° 31 ′  S , 42 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 0 ° 31 ′  S , 42 ° 27 ′  E
Chianguva (Somalia)
Chianguva

Chianguva is an island in Somalia . It belongs politically to Jubaland and geographically to the Bajuni Islands , a chain of coral islands ( barrier islands ), which extends from Kismaayo in the north over 100 kilometers to the Raas Kaambooni near the Kenyan border.

geography

The island forms a small group of islands with Yabangoodi and Ziva Zecundru and forms a kind of closure of the Bajuni Islands, since the islands of Matunga-iyo-Baaba , Smiid , Bishikaani , Salooto Feerde and Seerbeenti are more connected to the land and no longer to the land belong to the same reef rim. The island is about 1.5 km from the coast and consists of the sea-side reef edge.

climate

The climate is tropical hot monsoon climate .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oscar Gakuo Mwangi: Jubaland: Somalia's new security dilemma and state-building efforts. In: Africa Review 8.2 (2016): pp. 120–132.
  2. Chianguva at GeoNames , geonames.org. Retrieved August 6, 2020