Sentence examples for scattered settlements from inspiring English sources

Nearly three-fourths of the population now live in cities and towns, with only scattered settlements in the mountains.

Historically, Somalia has always been more a collection of widely scattered settlements and clans than a unified country.

In their widely scattered settlements the Atacama cultivated crops such as corn (maize), beans, quinoa, and squash with the aid of irrigation.

Bongo, also spelled Bungu, a people once extensive in the western area of present-day South Sudan, now found in small, scattered settlements south and east of Wau.

Israel is rushing to complete a security barrier against suicide bombings, but its path has been controversial because of all the scattered settlements Israel wants to protect.

At the time of historic contact the Puebloan peoples were restricted to the Rio Grande Valley and adjacent localities and to scattered settlements in west central New Mexico and on the Hopi mesas of Arizona.

Scattered settlement and shifting agriculture predominate, with rice as the main food crop.

There is evidence of some scattered settlement in prehistoric times, but Roman occupation, focused on lead mining in the high Pennines, left little imprint.

Urban development patterns differ with a dominance of small-scale scattered settlement units (SUs) in Bolgatanga and a mixture of small- and large-scale SUs in Takoradi.

The population growth (42 per cent) is also very high between 1901 and 2001, and more than 70percentnt people lives in villages or scattered settlement called dhanis (Hamlets) where agriculture and animal husbandry are the main occupation.

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of the evolution of rural scattered settlement in the Mediterranean mountains of Spain, and to demonstrate how the process of land colonization occurred.