Official Name: | Masagan |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Sanaag#Somalia |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Somalia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Somalia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Sanaag |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Erigavo District |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 3000 |
Timezone: | EAT |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 10.4672°N 47.4422°W |
Masagan is a town in the Erigavo District of Sanaag region of Somalia.
Situated at sea level, Masagan has a Subtropical desert environment. Sanaag's yearly temperature is 24.01 °C (75.22 °F) and it is - 3.9% below Somalia's midpoints. Masagan commonly gets around 121.02 millimeters (4.76 inches) of precipitation and has 140.35 of rainy days (38.45% of the time) every year.
In 2013, a local Islamic madrasah was built serving the residents belonging to the Waylaxidh village of Masagan, serving kindergarten age residents. It was inaugurated by the local clan elder and politician Ismail Ahmed Ali-Suudi.[1]
Local communities belonging to the central and southern areas of the Sanaag region volunteered to build a road connecting their towns to the city of Erigavo, which includes Masagan and its villages.[2]
The city of Masagan is primarily inhabited by the Mohamoud Garad branch of the Dhulbahante clan, predominantly by the Naleye Ahmed sub-lineages of the Ugaadhyahan.