Dan-Barto

Dan-Barto rural community
	Dan-Barto rural community
	Dan-Barto rural community
Coordinates	13 ° 12 ′ N , 8 ° 19 ′ E Coordinates: 13 ° 12 ′ N , 8 ° 19 ′ E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	cinder
department	Kantché
ISO 3166-2	NE-7
Residents	39,255 (2010)

Dan-Barto (also: Dan Barto ) is a rural community in the Kantché department in Niger .

geography

Dan-Barto is located in the Sahel zone and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the southeast . The neighboring communities in Niger are Hawandawaki in the northwest, Tsaouni in the north, Kourni in the east and Sassoumbroum in the southeast. The municipality is divided into 36 administrative villages, nine traditional villages, 72 hamlets and five camps. The main town of the rural community is Dan-Barto, consisting of the administrative villages Dan Barto I and Dan Barto II.

history

The rural community of Dan-Barto emerged in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from part of the canton of Kantché.

population

At the 2001 census, Dan-Barto had 28,911 residents. For 2010, 39,255 inhabitants were calculated. Members of the mainly arable Hausa subgroup Katsinawa and the Fulbe subgroup Daourawa, which specializes in agropastoralism , live in Dan-Barto .

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops . The national road 10 runs through Dan-Barto, which connects the border town with the departmental capital Kantché and in the other direction leads to the state border with Nigeria. The megacity of Kano in Nigeria is around 150 kilometers by road from the main town of Dan-Barto.

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 http://www.case.ibimet.cnr.it/den/Documents/code_rural/cdrom/doc % 20pdf / Loi% 20N% B02002-14% 20cr% E9ation% 20des% 20communes.pdf (link not available)
^ 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.
↑ 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 ( online version ( Memento of July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 11.3 MB), pp. 30 and 33.
^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.

[1] Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.

[2] Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux http://www.case.ibimet.cnr.it/den/Documents/code_rural/cdrom/doc % 20pdf / Loi% 20N% B02002-14% 20cr% E9ation% 20des% 20communes.pdf (link not available)

[3] 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.

[4] 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 ( online version ( Memento of July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 11.3 MB), pp. 30 and 33.

[5] Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.