Ghorghori city (Persian/Pashto: غرغری) or Ghurghuri (Balochi: غورغوري), also called Ghor Ghori is a town and capital of Khash Rod District of Nimruz Province, Afghanistan.
Ghorghori
غرغری Ghurghuri | |
|---|---|
Town | |
  Ghorghori Location | |
| Coordinates: 31°26′51″N 62°37′50″E / 31.44750°N 62.63056°E | |
| Country |  Afghanistan |
| Province | Nimruz Province |
| District | Khash Rod District |
| Elevation | 553 m (1,814 ft) |
| Time zone | +4:30 |
History edit
Ghorghori is historical place northwest of Khash village in Khash Rod District, which called in historical sources as (قرنین) Qornain or Qor Qor, which is local Persian language is Ghornain or Ghor Ghori Qornain.
Ya'qub Lays the founder of the Saffarid dynasty of Sistan, with its capital at Zaranj, was born in 840, of eastern Iranian origins,[1] in a small town called Qornain (From Arabic), which was located east of Zaranj and west of Bost, near Khash village in what is now Afghanistan.
Climate edit
Ghorghori has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh), characterised by little precipitation and high variation between summer and winter temperatures. The average temperature in Khash is 21.4 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 62 mm. July is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 34.4 °C. The coldest month January has an average temperature of 8.0 °C.
| Climate data for Ghorghori | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) |
18.6 (65.5) |
24.9 (76.8) |
30.9 (87.6) |
36.5 (97.7) |
42.0 (107.6) |
42.7 (108.9) |
41.3 (106.3) |
36.6 (97.9) |
30.8 (87.4) |
23.2 (73.8) |
17.7 (63.9) |
30.1 (86.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 8.0 (46.4) |
11.1 (52.0) |
16.8 (62.2) |
22.5 (72.5) |
27.7 (81.9) |
32.8 (91.0) |
34.4 (93.9) |
32.4 (90.3) |
27.0 (80.6) |
21.0 (69.8) |
13.7 (56.7) |
9.1 (48.4) |
21.4 (70.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 0.7 (33.3) |
3.6 (38.5) |
8.8 (47.8) |
14.1 (57.4) |
19.0 (66.2) |
23.7 (74.7) |
26.1 (79.0) |
23.5 (74.3) |
17.5 (63.5) |
11.2 (52.2) |
4.3 (39.7) |
0.5 (32.9) |
12.8 (55.0) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[2] | |||||||||||||
References edit
- ^ Baumer 2016, p. 24.
- ^ "Climate: Khash - Climate-Data.org". Retrieved 15 September 2016.
Works cited edit
- Baumer, Christoph (2016). The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols. Vol. Three. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78453-490-5.
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