Gara Muleta
| Gara Muleta | ||
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| height | 3405 m | |
| location | Ethiopia | |
| Coordinates | 9 ° 14 '59 " N , 41 ° 43' 51" E | |
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The Gara Muleta or Gārāmulatā is a 3405 m high mountain in the administrative region of Oromia in Ethiopia . It is the highest mountain in the Chercher highlands and belongs to the Ahmar Mountains. The mountain is surrounded by an evergreen cloud forest zone with many epiphytes . The forest forms a unique ecosystem within the semi-arid to arid landscape.
The Gara Muleta extends horizontally for 16 km, with height differences between 2400 and 3400 m. The geology, the soil and the climate of the mountain were scientifically described in 1968 by Henry Fred Murphy and in 1990 by Siegfried Kurt Uhlig and Käthe Uhlig .
In the forest around the mountain there are various animals such as the bushbuck , leopard , Ethiopian ibex , Beisa oryx , hyenas , three types of baboons , bush pigs , gorse cats , African civet cats , common porcupines , francolin , guinea fowl and a plentiful selection of birds and reptiles .
Between 1983 and 1994 there were numerous botanical studies on the mountain in which more than 391 plant species from 43 families were registered. Many of the plants are endemic .
literature
- Demel Teketay in Laurentius Josephus Gerardus van der Maesen, Xander M. van der Burgt, Judith M. van Medenbach de Rooy: Floristic composition of Gara Muleta and Kundudo mountains, south-eastern Ethiopia: implications for the conservation of biodiversity in The Biodiversity of African Plants . Springer, Dordrecht 1996, ISBN 978-94-010-6613-6 , pp. 345-350 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-94-009-0285-5_47 .
- Siegfried Kurt Uhlig, Käthe Uhlig: The altitude levels of the vegetation on Gara Mulatta, Ethiopia . In: Fedde's repertory . tape 101 , no. 1/2 , 1990, pp. 651–664 , doi : 10.1002 / fedr.19901011116 .
- Henry Fred Murphy: A report on the fertility status and other data on some soils of Ethiopia . College of Agriculture Haile Sellassie I University, Ethiopia, Dire Dawa 1968.