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Dannet rural community
Dannet rural community (Niger)
Dannet rural community
Dannet rural community
Coordinates 18 ° 17 ′  N , 7 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 18 ° 17 ′  N , 7 ° 21 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Agadez
department Arlit
ISO 3166-2 NE-1
Residents 14,964 (2012)

Dannet (also: Dannat ) is a rural community in the Arlit department in Niger .

geography

Market in the village of Anoumakaram in Dannet
Street scene in the village of Anoumakaram in Dannet

The place is located west of the Aïr Mountains in the Sahara desert . The southern foothills of the Algerian mountain range Tassili n'Ajjer connect from the north . The neighboring municipalities are Arlit and Gougaram in the north, Timia in the east, Dabaga in the south and Ingall in the southwest. In the northwest there is a small section of the border with the neighboring state of Algeria . The municipality is divided into four administrative villages, two camps and 18 water points. The main town of the rural community is the Dannet waterhole (also: Dannat).

history

The rural community of Dannet was established as an administrative unit in 2002 in a previously unincorporated area. In the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , 432 residents of Dannet were classified as disaster victims.

population

At the 2001 census, Dannet had 6252 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 14,964. To the east of the municipality which is Tamascheq - variety Tayart that Tamascheq-variety in the northwest on the border with Algeria Tahaggart spoken.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Imouraren uranium mine is in the outcropping area . The uranium deposit of Imouraren is considered the largest in Africa and the second largest in the world.

Web links

Commons : Dannet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed November 8, 2010.
  2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
  3. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cic.ne
  4. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.0 MB), p. 53.
  5. ↑ Presentation of the results globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF file) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 18, 2014 (French ).
  6. ↑ Niger map. In: Ethnologue: Languages ​​of the World. Seventeenth edition. SIL International, 2013, accessed July 18, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Le projet Imouraren (Niger). (PDF file; 900 kB) Areva, March 2013, accessed on June 26, 2013 (French).
  8. ↑ Imouraren Uranium Mine, Niger. mining-technology.com, accessed June 26, 2013 .