# Karrayyu

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The **Karrayyu** are an [Oromo](/source/Oromo_people) clan inhabiting the Awash Valley banks of Abadir and Merti area in central [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia).[1] They are [pastoralists](/source/Pastoralism).[2] Karrayyu neighbor the [Afar](/source/Afar_people) and [Argobba](/source/Argobba_people) people.[3] It is believed the extinct [Harla](/source/Harla) ethnicity were assimilated into Karrayyu Oromo in eastern [Shewa](/source/Shewa).[4][5][6]

## See also

- [List of Oromo subgroups and clans](/source/List_of_Oromo_subgroups_and_clans)

## References

1. Gebre, Ayalew. [*Understanding the Dynamics of Land Transaction Practices in Agro-Pastoral Neighbourhoods of the Karrayu: The Cases of Abadir and Merti*](https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/1113/Gebre_Ayalew.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y). p. 6.

1. Prunier, Gérard (2015). [*Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia*](https://books.google.com/books?id=KYmMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30). Oxford University Press. p. 30. ISBN 9781849042611.

1. [*Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries*](https://books.google.com/books?id=xo7X58m4aQoC&dq=karrayyu+oromo&pg=PA152). CABI. 2007. p. 152. ISBN 9781845933272.

1. Braukamper, Ulrich (2002). [*Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia Collected Essays*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HGnyk8Pg9NgC&dq=clear+distinction+between+the+Oromo+and+the+assimilated+autochthons&pg=PA17). LitVerlag. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-8258-5671-7.

1. Mohammed, Ayantu. [*Mapping Historical Traces: Methogensis, Identity and the Representation of the Harela: A Historical and Anthropological Inquiry*](http://repository.smuc.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/3028/1/Ayantu%20Mohammed.pdf). Wollo University. p. 111.

1. [*Harla*](https://en.sewasew.com/p/harla-(%E1%88%90%E1%88%AD%E1%88%8B)). Encyclopedia Aethiopica.

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