The Directorate Qattbp on the line of contact between the two parts of the sea, n by (22) May 1990, and the scene of conflict between a statute has been called "the Yemen Arab Republic" and the elements of the "National Front" backed by a system of "Republic of Yemen People's Democratic Republic" before the unit, and still These people remember the horrors of the Director Alchtir Yemeni unity that came to save them from it.
What is not known by many for Qattbp is that it is the Directorate, which grew up where the martyr President Ibrahim al-Hamdi, and later became the place that embraced the "Conference Qattbp" between him and the president "safe" in the village (red) the mid-seventies of the last century, as it was issued incubator to rebel revolution of the "14 October" against the British colonialists, and safe haven to elements of the "Liberation Front" who were subjected to filtering by the comrades in the struggle, "National Front" after the revolution.
Khat economy is threatened by drought groundwater
It is located Directorate Qattbp within the geographically central areas, and is affiliated with the province of Dali, and about 120 km from the city of Aden, and the population is dependent, who number about 100.000 people depend on agriculture as their primary source of income, where is the Directorate of the first in the production and export (khat), which depends upon the population relied primarily for their livelihoods. and is famous for Qattbp production of many of the finest types of khat, Kalqat (Muraysi) and (recursive) and (municipal), and that the cultivation of khat consumed more than 95 percent of the groundwater in the district, as a result of digging random wells, which offer a lot of villages to the crisis sharp in the water, where the suffering regions (lute), under the Directorate of dry wells and the scarcity of water, while the living area (Maris) a golden age in the abundance of groundwater, but tampering with the consumption of this water is threatening the basin water running out, especially since many of the villages and isolate (Maris) began drought indicators portend a bleak future which threatens the entire region.
And support the people of the Directorate of Qattbp for their livelihood on the cultivation of qat, which contribute to the absorption of thousands of young people and the unemployed, where allow farmers millions of riyals every year and absorbed a lot of labor contractors and gatherers and embarrassed and Biain of khat, so most families send their children and youth to work in (khat) .
Old Ottoman cemetery
City Qattbp is the capital of the district, and about 5 km from the government complex to maintain in (Snah), and came to designate (Qattbp) of the name implies spatial, because it was located on (the bottom of the tap s), where she was Tepe view on the bottom when the camp of the army of the Turks in the nineteenth century, while some go to the historical sources that the label came from the old to the bottom of the label which was called (the bottom of the good) and with time became known (Qattbp).
The Centre Directorate is currently the old cemetery that it is likely some graves of the soldiers and the Turks, who were arriving in Yemen, and Icypron as a result of fierce popular resistance to the Ottoman multiple campaigns to Yemen.
Expansion in the absence of services
And expanded Qattbp direction (Snah), which was the border area at the time of split into two halves, but with this huge expansion is still suffering from lack of electricity, which relies residential buildings, hotels, restaurants and businesses on the (generators) for, while the government is unable to provide it with electricity from the line public extended to the center Qattbp old, because the electric grid has become outdated.
Also suffer Qattbp (the capital) from the problem of sewage overflowing by Al-Art feature of the city, which became a city infested with many diseases, especially that of children playing along the streets overflowing with sewage flooding the streets and internal roads and reveal the dire situation of the population of this Directorate.
The governor of Dali Ali Qasim student said during a visit to Qattbp that the problem of sewage is the mother of problems, on top of the agenda of the functions of the local authority, and urged citizens to cooperate with the state, and not to hinder any civil project and give their own interests in the public interest, where, according to well known s that there Many of the projects stalled by the reluctance of some parents, their refusal to give up some of their property for the benefit of service projects such as water, sewage and garbage dumps.
(Surge) the date of threatened
Surge is the ruins of a historic city located 15 km north east of the city Qattbp, and attributed by historians to (surge bin Abadan ibn Hajar bin pious), and it is attributed Makhlav (surge) previously, and was told that Ali Fadhil Knfri (the founder of the movement Alqurmtip in Yemen) was born and grew up in the third century AH.
This historic city was left with only the ruins of buildings dilapidated, located east of the city (Hajjar armies) and stationed on a hill in a mountainous mid-rise, overlooking the eastern direction north on the Valley (Rousan), which take place when the water was appointed permanent, and was told that he had the inscription Palmsnd not is found, according to a statement director of the Museum Dali Mohammad Mnakec, with views from the west side of the valley (surge), which comes Msaqth the watermark from (mountains Shami) north of the upheaval, and meet this valley with the valley (Hajjar upheaval) in a valley called (the door server does ).
All that remains of the city of upheaval archaeological only the ruins of buildings, some visible and some buried under the earth, and still the walls of some buildings above the ground at a height of up to two meters, with most of the buildings have been destroyed and turned into strips Farm, has also been building a road for cars leading to the top of the hill, resulting in obliterate many of the monuments of the city.
The area of the western part of the summit plateau at about 20 × 500 meters, and the ruins of buildings and the foundations stones polite punctuated by digging a circular in the rock seems to have been water tanks, according to eating Mohamed engraved, while the northern part of the top of the hill is a rock and raised bumps for fortifications natural and caves of the eastern facade, as there is in the top of this summit, the remains of buildings and M. Dvonp Mqddp called "tombs".
Fort returned
The village is located (Hajjar upheaval) near the upheaval and extends on both sides of a valley spacious surrounded by fertile agricultural land and come watershed the valley of (the mountains of Maris) tall, and contains the mountains on a large number of cliffs and caves, where they had been the discovery site (Fort returned) and three rocky caves were used as a shelter for prehistoric man, and is evidenced by the effects found by the rock drawings and colored patterns in these caves.
The fort is located (returned) the natural mountain range north-west of the village (Hajjar upheaval), is a mass of rock a large and separate from the mountain a distance of approximately 5 m wide and reaches a height of more than 20 meters, where it is difficult to climb and reach the summit overlooking the valley (Hajjar upheaval (f) the people of Coluber), and is a fort on the cave camels, a distance of 30 meters, and above you see the traces of buildings, archaeological small had not been discovered yet, where according to some citizens that had already ascended to a group of people by ropes, and dug up some of the buildings and found holes circular pottery, which was confirmed by Prof. Muhammad engraved, Ba said NH was found at the bottom of the fortress on the remains of pottery and rubble and dust appear to be thrown from the top of the rock.
Located a cave (agger) near the eastern slopes of the mountains (Maris) tall, and away from the village (Hajjar upheaval) by about 2 km west, and separates between him and the mountain range (exchangers) from the South Valley (the people Hanash), which take place when water Gale small throughout the year There is no doubt that this is the water that made the old man choose to live in these mountains fortified and full of natural caves that were homes and castles, the prehistoric man.
And agger is a cave on a rocky gully on the mountain at a depth of about 7.50 meters and a length of approximately 22 meters, 3.30 meters high, and the discovery of this cave is considered the most important archaeological discoveries that document an important part of human history and civilization of ancient Yemen.
The importance of this cave to be contained in loyalty to a large amount of the fees, numbering more than 200 landscape, which is documenting the diversity and multiplicity of substantive topics in the life of the old Yemeni man, and the colors used in these drawings confirms that it is painted in different historical periods.
Says Professor Muhammad engraved that the discovery of this cave and the multiplicity of technical topics which may make the Yemen in the first row of the countries that has flourished in this Art of cuttings and rock drawings colored in Shelter Rock, stressing that this cave is not as important as the caves (Lascaux, and Altambra) discovered where such fees in Europe.
In addition to this cave there are many caves, archaeological sites, such as a cave (cave of the Apes) and (cliff camels), but most of the graphics of these caves have been tampered with and effacement, which lose much of its beauty.
