sentences:  While 4,083 or 8.35% are urban inhabitants, a further 30,394 or 62.18% are pastoralists.99.32% of the population said they were Muslim.The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 24,874, of whom 14,136 were men and 10,738 were women; 3,792 or 15.24% of its population were urban dwellers.