Attantane
| Rural parish of Attantané | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 3 ' N , 7 ° 31' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Mayahi | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-4 | ||
| Residents | 71,928 (2012) | ||
Attantané is a rural municipality in the department of Mayahi in Niger .
geography
Attantané is in the Sahel . The neighboring communities are Guidan Amoumoune in the northwest, Tchaké in the northeast, Mayahi in the southeast, Sarkin Haoussa in the southwest and Maïyara in the west. The Wadi Goulbi N'Kaba runs in the south of Attantané . The municipality is divided into 38 administrative villages, 102 hamlets and seven camps. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Attantané.
history
Before the arrival of the French at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Attantané belonged to the independent state of Gobir . The rural community of Attantané emerged in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from part of the Mayahi canton.
population
At the 2001 census, Attantané had 47,732 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 71,928. The population consists mainly of the Hausa subgroups Gobirawa, Katchinawa, Daourawa, Kambarin baré-bari and Tagamawa, and Tuareg and Fulbe also live in the rural community. The most widely spoken language is Hausa .
Economy and Infrastructure
The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. There are also numerous pastures in Attantané, but they are getting smaller and smaller, which leads to conflict. In addition, plants that are not suitable for use as fodder have spread on some pastures. In the main town there is a health center opened in 1998 ( French : Center de Santé Intégre). There are primary schools in 26 villages. The illiteracy in adults is widespread.
literature
- Djéralar Miankéol: Dianostic participatif de l'agrosystème villageois de Goumza. Perspectives d'amélioration . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1994.
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Ogunsola John Igue, Kengne Fodouop, Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan (ed.): Maîtrise de l'espace et développement en Afrique. Budget of the lieux . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0264-7 , p. 239.
- ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 55.
- ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (French).
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.
- ↑ Présentation de la commune de Attantané ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the ANIYA Coopération Décentralisée Niger-France, accessed on March 29, 2012.
