Official Name: | Dorra درة |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Djibouti |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Djibouti |
Coordinates: | 12.15°N 71°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Djibouti |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Tadjoura |
Elevation M: | 294 |
Population Total: | 1,873 |
Population As Of: | 2013 |
Dorra (Arabic: درة) is a village in Djibouti in the mid-north of Tadjoura Region, the largest region. It is about 237 kilometers north-west of Djibouti City and 65 km (40 mi) south of the border with Eritrea and east of the border with Ethiopia. At Dorra rock paintings have been found.
The average annual temperature in Dorra is 29.1°C. About 1652NaN2 of precipitation falls annually. The driest month is June with 42NaN2, and nine months of the year tend to be virtually rainless, with on average no more than 132NaN2 of rain per month. Average precipitation in August, accounting for years when the rains in this area arrive or do not arrive, is 302NaN2 – the three months when typically quantities of rain supporting grassland means there is significant herding in this eastern extreme of a huge escarpment reaching beyond the border and rising to the central parts of the Ethiopian Highlands.[1]
Dorra has a hot arid climate (BWh) in the Köppen-Geiger system.