Ruwaished
Ruwaished
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Area code | +(962)2 |
Ruwaished (
After the war on Iraq in 2003, about 800 refugees fled from Iraq to the Jordanian border, mostly Palestinians and Somalis, where they were allocated in the Ruwaished Refugee Camp in the No man's land between Jordan and Iraq.[1]
Geography
The town is located in
History
It is not known exactly when was the Ruwaished basin first inhabited, however existing Roman water dams, such as the Burqu Dam, indicate that the basin has been used as a traffic stop by the
During the
Demographics
The Jordan National Census of 2004 showed that the town of Ruwaished had a population of 12,098, of whom 55.5% were males and 44.5% females. Only 67.5% of the population were Jordanian citizens. Among the Jordanian citizens, 53.4% were males, while males made up 58% of the foreign nationals .[2]
Economy
Agriculture constitutes the backbone of the town's legal economy. Due to its location in plains where eight wadis converge, there are several dams built in the Ruwaished basin, to efficiently utilize the winter floods in the wadis:
- North Ruwaished (Abu Alsafa) Dam: has a capacity of 10.3 million m3.
- Burqu Dam: Originally a Roman built dam and still in use, has a capacity of about 4 million m3.
- Shaalan Dam: has a capacity of 1 million m3.
- Alrisha Alsharqiyya Dam: has a capacity of 2 million m3.
- Hadlat Dam: The largest dam with a capacity of 20 million m3.
- Raqban Dam
- Buwaidha Dam
However close to so many borders; for some time now the main economy of the town has been cross-border smuggling.
See also
References
- ^ Angelina Jolie in Ruwaished Ref. Camp UNHCR report
- ^ Census 2004 Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine