Doba (Chad)

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Doba
Doba (Chad)
Doba
Doba
Coordinates 9 ° 16 '  N , 17 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 9 ° 16 '  N , 17 ° 38'  E
Basic data
Country Chad

region

Logone Oriental
ISO 3166-2 TD-LR
Residents 26,194 (2009)

Doba is a city in southern Chad with 26,194 inhabitants (2009 calculation).

The place is the capital of the Logone Oriental region and the Pendé department and the seat of a Catholic diocese .

economy

In 1989 crude oil was discovered in the region and the reserves were estimated at 130 million tons. The importance of the place has increased since the US corporations Exxon Mobil and Chevron Texaco started oil production together with the Malaysian company Petronas . The oil field stretches across the border to Cameroon ; a 1070 km long pipeline has been connecting it to the Cameroonian port of Kribi on the Atlantic since October 10, 2003 .

archeology

In the course of the construction of the 1070 km long oil pipeline, the longest archaeological section in Africa to date was created. During the rescue excavations hundreds of archaeological sites from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age came to light.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Gazetteer: Doba
  2. ↑ Philippe Lavachery, Scott MacEachern, T. Bouimon, Christophe Mbida Mindzie: Komé - Kribi: rescue archeology along the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline, 1999-2004 (=  Journal of African archeology: Monograph series . Volume 4 ). Africa Magna Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-937248-12-7 (French, limited preview in the Google book search).

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