The town is also the Orientation Training Centre for National Youth Service corps members posted to Enugu State.

Geographically, Awgu LGA is located approximately between latitudes 06 00’ and 06 19’ North of the Equator and longitudes 07 23’ and 07 35’ East of the Greenwich Meridian.

Majority of the population settle at the foot of the hills because of the difficulty posed by the rugged terrain and because the lowland have richer soil which support better crop yield.

A study by Mozie, Arinze T. at the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria found that the settlement pattern on the hills is clustered with a nearest neighbour index of 0.82 while settlement pattern on the lowland area is dispersed with a nearest neighbour index of 1.72.

Awgu formation is composed of bluish and gray, well-bedded shales which are occasionally intercalated with calcareous sandstones and shelly limestone.

Also, fine to coarse grained, massive sandstone, locally cross-bedded with some pebble beds and subordinate bands of siltstone and carbonaceous shale are present.

Many people that reside at the very lower course of the streams are affected and they have to trek up to the middle course (foot of the hills) to collect water.

The top and slope faces of the hills are more covered by grasses such as Andropogon gayanus, Ctenium spp, Hyparrhenia barteri, etc.

This pattern of vegetation has been ascribed to relative dryness during the dry season, favourable soil conditions, and human interference in bush burning.