Luuq

Luuq (Somali: Luuq, Arabic: لوق‎) is a town in the southwestern Gedo province of Somalia. It is one of the older settlements in the area, and is the seat of the Luuq District. The town is located in a bend of the Juba River, where the watercourse flows down from north to south in a horseshoe shape. Luuq is also known as Luuq Ganaane.

Overview

The name Luuq in the Somali language means "alley" by virtue of the city's geographical setting. The river has great influence on the city and its surrounding areas. The entrance of the city gate is situated not more than 100 meters from the river banks on both the eastern and western sides of the town. About 4 km past the city center and main Luuq Market, the river encloses the city again completely. Only the extreme southern side of the city has open land free from the river's enclosures.

Historically, Luuq is one of the oldest settlements in Somalia. In his 1811 report to the authorities of British India, captain Thomas Smee wrote Luuq had 300 huts, in comparison to Mogadishu which at the time had between 100 and 150 stone houses. Beginning in 1893, Luuq was attacked by Ethiopian raiding parties travelling down the Juba, which forced the local sultan to unsuccessfully appeal to the Sultan of Zanzibar for help; only when the Italian explorers Vittorio Bottego and Ugo Ferrandi arrived in 1895 were the Ethiopian attacks successfully repelled. Luuq came under indirect Italian control by 1907, and Italian interest in the town was serious enough for them to demarcate the only segment of the Somali-Ethiopian boundary in order to include Luuq as part of Italian Somaliland. For decades, it was the political center of the Gedo region.

Quadrant (abdomen)

The human abdomen is divided into regions by anatomists and physicians for purposes of study, diagnosis, and therapy. In the four-region scheme, four quadrants allow localisation of pain and tenderness, scars, lumps, and other items of interest, narrowing in on which organs and tissues may be involved. The quadrants are referred to as the left lower quadrant, left upper quadrant, right upper quadrant and right lower quadrant, as follows.

The left lower quadrant (LLQ) of the human abdomen is the area left of the midline and below the umbilicus. The LLQ includes the left iliac fossa and half of the left flank region.

The term is not used in comparative anatomy, since most other animals do not stand erect. The equivalent term for animals is left posterior quadrant.

The left upper quadrant (LUQ) extends from the median plane to the left of the patient, and from the umbilical plane to the left ribcage.

The equivalent term for animals is 'left anterior quadrant'.

The right upper quadrant (RUQ) extends from the median plane to the right of the patient, and from the umbilical plane to the right ribcage.

Luq'umayu

Luq'umayu (Quechua luq'u old hat that has lost ist form; hollow, depression (of an area), mayu river, "hollow river", hispanicized spellings Lucumayo, Lucumayu) is a river in Peru located in the Cusco Region, La Convención Province, Huayopata District. Its waters flow to the Willkanuta River.

Luq'umayu originates in the Urupampa mountain range near Willka Wiqi. It crosses the district from southeast to northwest along the villages of Chachayuq (Chachayoc), Allpamayu (Alfamayo), Luq'umayu (Lucumayo), Wak'arumiyuq, (Huacarumiyoc), Wamanpata (Huamanpata), Inkatampu (Incatambo), Sarasarayuq (Sarasarayoc), Wamanmarka (Huamanmarca) and Huyru (Huyro). Some of its numerous little affluents from the right are Allpamayu, Ch'akimayu (Chaquimayo), Inkatampu (Incatambo) and Sirinayuq (Sirinayoc). Its main tributary is Wamanmarka (Huamanmarca). The village of Wamanmarka lies near the confluence of these rivers, on the right bank of the Luq'umayu. This is where the archaeological site of Wamanmarka is situated. Tunkimayu ("Andean cock-of-the-rock river", Tunquimayo) is one of the left tributaries.