Cascades (Burkina Faso)

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Cascades
waterfalls
Basic data
Capital : Banfora
Provinces : 2
Governor : Youssouf Roamba
Area : 18,663 km²
Residents : 589.741
Bev density: 28.1 inhabitants / km²
ISO 3166-2 : BF-02
location
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Cascades is one of 13 regions into which the West African state of Burkina Faso is administratively divided. The capital is Banfora . The region in the southwest comprises the provinces of Comoé and Léraba and borders the Hauts-Bassins region in the north, Sud-Ouest in the east and Mali and the Ivory Coast in the south .

542,956 inhabitants (2006 census), who belong to a large number of ethnic groups, live on an area of ​​18,663 km². Cascades was created in 2001 and is the most industrialized region in the country after Center and Hauts-Bassins . It has numerous natural attractions, such as the Cascades de Banfora , the Dômes de Fabédougou , the Téngréla lake and the Pics de Sindou .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2006 census ( Memento from May 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).