Dogonkiria
| Dogonkiria rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 4 ′ N , 4 ° 21 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
| Dosso | |||
| department | Dogondoutchi | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-3 | ||
| Residents | 65,990 (2012) | ||
Dogonkiria (also: Dogon Kiria ) is a rural community in the Dogondoutchi department in Niger .
geography
Dogonkiria is located in the southern Sahel . The neighboring communities are Kourfeye Center in the north, Bagaroua in the east, Alléla in the southeast, Dan-Kassari in the south, Matankari in the southwest and Soucoucoutane in the west. The municipality is divided into 25 administrative villages, 121 traditional villages, six hamlets and six camps. The main town of the rural parish is the administrative village of Dogonkiria.
The large, periodically water-bearing dry valley Dallol Maouri runs through the far north of the municipality .
history
The rural municipality of Dogonkiria emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the northeastern part of the canton of Dogondoutchi. In June 2008, floods destroyed 92 houses and over three tons of food supplies. Over 500 residents were considered to be directly damaged.
population
At the 2001 census, Dogonkiria had 46,012 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 65,990.
Economy and Infrastructure
The community lies at the transition from the zone of rain-fed agriculture in the south to the zone of agropastoralism in the north. There is a cattle market in the village of Maïmakaïné. The market day is Thursday.
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 .
- ↑ M. Tiepolo, M. Ali, M. Bacci, S. Braccio, H. Issa, AZ Oumarou: Analyze du risque d'inondation dans les communes de la Région de Dosso au Niger, 1998-2016. (PDF) Projet ANADIA 2.0, report no. 5. Agence Italienne pour la Coopération au Développement, 2018, p. 10 , accessed on April 26, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Situation des dégâts causés par les inondations (2008) ( Memento of the original of February 2, 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. . Center d'Information et de Communication website, published November 18, 2008, accessed March 31, 2012.
- ^ 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. 54.
- ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (French).
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.
- ^ Mahamadou Saley, Yatta Paul Maurice Mohamed: Projet Régional d'Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS). Etude diagnostique des Systèmes d'Information sur les marchés à bétail du Burkina Faso, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad. Définitif report. (PDF) CILSS , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018 (French).
