sentences:  While 12,657 or 16.31% are urban inhabitants, a further 45,766 or 58.96% are pastoralists.97.79% of the population said they were Muslim, and 1.3% said they practiced Orthodox Christian.This woreda is inhabited by the Gurgura sub-clan of the Dir clan family as well as Jidle - A hawiye Clan
  
  The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 77,960, of whom 42,247 were men and 35,713 were women; 10,637 or 13.64% of its population were urban dwellers.