Boumba (Niger)

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Boumba ( English spelling: Bumba ) is a village in the rural municipality of Falmey in Niger .

Boumba is located in the south of the municipal area of ​​Falmey on the left bank of the Niger River , which forms the state border with Benin here. At Boumba the Dallol Bosso flows into the Niger. The W National Park is located near the village . The majority of the population belongs to the Zarma ethnic group . Boumba had 866 people in the 1988 census, 1,414 people in the 2001 census, and 1,774 people in the 2012 census.

The village was founded in the mid-19th century by several Zarma families who came from the troubled city of Dosso . Boumba was for a short time - from February 1 to December 2, 1908 - the seat of a sector of the same name in the French military territory of Niger. The Boumba sector included the cities of Gaya and Say , among others . The main industries in are agriculture, especially the cultivation of millet, and the pirogues -Schifffahrt on Niger. Market day in Boumba is Tuesday.

literature

  • HY Hamadou: Etude floristique et ethnobotanique du terroir villageois de Boumba dans la réserve de biosphère du W du Niger . Mémoire d'Ingénieur de Techniques Agricoles (ITA). Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jöelle Hauzeur, Laurent Pellé: Fleuve Niger. Toponymie et geographie récentes du W de Kirtachi à Boumba . In: Journal des africanistes , 63rd edition, Paris 1993, p. 61.
  2. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 87 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceped.org
  3. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  4. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 155 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  5. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 89.

Coordinates: 12 ° 24 '  N , 2 ° 51'  E