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Kundudo or Kondudo (rarely spelt as Qundudo) is a flat top mountain (or ''amba'') in the Misraq (Eastern) Hararghe Zone of the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Part of the range that bears its name, its summit lies east of the walled city of Harar, with a height of nearly . In the same range, the Goba tarara (a term for mountain) holds a vast cave known since the nineteen hundreds, whilst at the southern end the Stinico tarara holds ancient engravings, unknown until 2008, in two recently studied small open caves. The summit is a flat grassland in area, and is the habitat of the only remaining feral horse population of East Africa, one of only two on the continent. Below Kondudo lie the localities of Fugnan Bira (also named Gursum), Day Feres, Fugnan Hujuba, Ejersa Goro, Bedada, Goba, Sakhare and Yaya Guda. Nearby is also a shrine and a singular design mosque named by the locals after Sheikh Adem Goba. == Human history == This mountain was mentioned by the British explorer Richard F. Burton, whose party traveled along its northern base January 1854, on their way to Harar.〔Burton, ''First Footsteps in East Africa'', 1856; edited with additional material by Gordon Waterfield (New York: Praeger, 1966), pp. 168f〕 On February 13–14, 2009, a group of six Italian and French speleologists explored a newly found cave of international interest. The cave is classified amongst the best five on the continent and is the only one in Ethiopia to contain a full variety of active speleothem kinds, or significant cave rock formations.〔() a photo gallery〕 The Kundudo limestone layers have been indicated by Prof. Viganó to contain more similar caves and vast fossil fields. As a consequence of these discoveries the whole area is being proposed for the constitution of an Oromia State Park.〔() a concept paper on the proposed Park〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=www.gursum.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kundudo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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