Damagaram Takaya

Damagaram Takaya rural community
Damagaram Takaya rural community
Coordinates	14 ° 8 '  N , 9 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 8 '  N , 9 ° 29'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	cinder
department	Damagaram Takaya
Residents	44,714 (2010)

Damagaram Takaya (also: Damagaram Ta Kaya ) is a rural community and the capital of the Damagaram Takaya department in Niger .

geography

Boscia senegalensis bushes in a millet field in the Damagaram Takaya area

Damagaram Takaya is located in the Sahel region . The neighboring communities are Alakoss in the north, Moa in the northeast, Gouré in the east, Guidiguir and Guidimouni in the southeast, Albarkaram , Gaffati and Mazamni in the southwest and Wamé in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 61 administrative villages, 38 traditional villages, 30 hamlets and a water point. The main town of the rural community is Damagaram Takaya Village.

The Forêt classée de Tounfafiram Nord with 295 hectares and the Forêt classée de Tounfafiram Ouest with 485 hectares are two protected forest areas in the municipality of Damagaram Takaya. It was placed under protection in 1953. On the border with the municipality of Guidimouni is the Mare de Lassouri lake , whose 34,000 hectare wetland has been under protection since 2005 under the Ramsar Convention . The dry valley of Zermou has its origin in the rocky hill country in the west of the municipality .

history

Damagaram was originally a settlement of Kanuri , who came from Bornu and were driven out by the Tuareg , in an area inhabited by Hausa . The name Damagaram was later adopted for the dominion of the Sultanate of Zinder . The Kanuri settlement was then named Damagaram Takaya, which means "Damagaram in the bushland".

The French colonial administration established a canton in Damagaram Takaya at the beginning of the 20th century , to which the dissolved Kafara canton was joined in 1923. 1964 an administrative reform divided Niger into seven departments, the predecessors of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessors of the later departments. Damagaram Takaya was added to the newly created arrondissement Mirriah and received the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) in the area of ​​the arrondissement. The rural community of Damagaram Takaya emerged from the Damagaram Takaya Canton in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform. The administrative post was removed from Mirriah in 2011 and raised to the Damagaram Takaya department.

population

At the 2001 census, Damagaram Takaya had 32,933 residents. For 2010, 44,714 inhabitants were calculated. Members of the Fulbe subgroups Katchinanko'en and Wodaabe as well as the Tuareg subgroup Ichiriffen live in Damagaram Takaya, all of whom specialize in remote grazing .

Economy and Infrastructure

Most of the parish is located in an area where agropastoralism can be practiced. The zone of rain-fed agriculture begins in the south .

literature

• Chapiou Dan Dibi: Impact socioéconomique du maraîchage dans la région de Zinder. Cas de l'ADP de Damagaram Ta Kaya . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Website of the Institut National de la Statistique; Retrieved January 22, 2011.
2. ↑ Loi n ° 2002-014 on 11 June 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux . Republic of Niger.
3. ^ Données available for chaque forêt classée . ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification; Retrieved February 25, 2012.
4. ↑ La Mare de Lassouri. In: Ramsar Sites Information Service. April 13, 2018, accessed March 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Ibrahim Mamadou, Maman Waziri Mato, Mahaman Nouri Maman Moussa, Moussa Elh Issoufou Assane: Dynamique actuelle et impacts socio-économiques du barrage de Kassama dans la région de Zinder au Niger . In: Revue Ivoirienne des Sciences et Technologie . No. 27 , 2016, ISSN  1813-3290 , p. 108 ( researchgate.net [accessed September 23, 2018]).
6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 134.
7. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 250.
8. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
9. ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2014]).
10. ^ 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. 57.
11. ↑ Ministère de l'élevage et des industries animales / République du Niger (ed.): La mobilité pastorale dans la Région de Zinder. Stratégies et dynamisme des sociétés pastorales . Niamey 2009, iram-fr.org ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 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. (PDF; 11.3 MB) pp. 32–33. 
12. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009, savethechildren.org.uk ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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. (PDF; 2.6 MB) p. 8.