تأثير الأودية الفرعية لوادي حضرموت (اليمن)‎ على التجمعات العمرانية 472

Abstract EN

Inhabiting random urban areas is one of the reasons for these areas to entail a number of problems.

That is because inhabitants of hot and semi-hot areas suffer from the risk of heavy rainfall، particularly urban areas located in the valleys.

Hadhramout Valley (in Yemen) is one example of these valleys which witness، after the passage of some years، distractive and uncontrolled floods and raging torrents leading to damages، deaths and losses.

The most recent of such disasters happened in 2008.

Such floods increased the inhabitants’ suffering in the above-mentioned areas.

This study comes to examine the impact of flow of such sub-valleys on urban communities within Hadhramout Valley.

The study is based on analysis of records ، tables that show the topography and ground forms of sub-valleys، their directions and their locations.

With using GIS and digital maps، to laying the scientific bases for guided schemes to urban communities.

The study of such areas becomes of great importance particu-larly in view of recent climatic change.

The results showed that there is a direct impact of the floods of valley that located the urban Communities in Wadi Hadramout.