The clustered settlement pattern and non-agricultural activities such as storage compounds, are reasonably well integrated as a result of this framework.

Coupled with coastlines that do not favor seaport development, this settlement pattern resulted in a much greater than usual dependence on land and rail transportation.

Find locations are widely distributed, suggesting a settlement pattern of hamlets and villages.

The tribal organization was based on the clan system of loyalties, and the dispersed settlement pattern of separate, scattered, mostly fortified homesteads.

The landscape of this woreda has been described as undulating mountains covered by a scattered settlement pattern, which make development efforts more difficult.