Falenko
| Rural parish of Falenko | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 16 ' N , 8 ° 32' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Tanout | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-7 | ||
| Residents | 13,993 (2012) | ||
Falenko (also: Falanko ) is a rural community in the Tanout department in Niger .
geography
Falenko is in the Sahel . The neighboring communities are Gangara in the north, Olléléwa in the east, Tirmini in the southeast, Ourafane in the south, El Allassane Maïreyrey in the southwest and Tarka in the west. The community consists of the main town Falenko and 44 other rural settlements, 11 of which, like the main town, are villages with their own village chiefs.
history
Falenko was founded - presumably in the 1920s - by a Tuareg leader. Contacts with the major Tuareg federations in the Aïr remained intact. In 1962 a cemented well was built in the main town. The area around Falenko was known for its millet production until the drought that began in the 1970s .
Although not a canton of its own, Falenko had a certain degree of independence when it came to collecting taxes. The rural community of Falenko emerged from the southern part of the canton of Gangara in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform.
population
According to the 2012 census, the municipality has 13,993 inhabitants. These live in 1928 households, of which 1775 are rural households. In the main town there are 3365 inhabitants in 408 households, 354 of which are rural households. In the 2001 census, the main town had 2221 inhabitants and in 1977 about 1400 inhabitants. The majority of the Tuareg in the community belong to the lower class of the Bouzou . Members of the mainly arable Hausa subgroups Gobirawa and Damagarawa as well as the Fulbe subgroup Oudah'en, who specialize in remote grazing, also live in Falenko .
literature
- John E. Crow, Helen K. Henderson: A report of survey findings from three villages in Zinder . In: Final report of the Natural Resource Planning Project for the Province of Zinder, Niger . Arid Lands Natural Resources Committee, University of Arizona, Tucson 1979, Appendix 9 ( usaid.gov [PDF]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ République du Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 June 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux.
- ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 671–672 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
- ^ A b John E. Crow, Helen K. Henderson: A report of survey findings from three villages in Zinder . In: Final report of the Natural Resource Planning Project for the Province of Zinder, Niger . Arid Lands Natural Resources Committee, University of Arizona, Tucson 1979, Appendix 9, pp. 3–4 ( usaid.gov [PDF; accessed August 15, 2015]).
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; Retrieved November 8, 2010 (French). 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.
- ↑ 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, pp. 30 and 33, 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).
