Gorou Banda (Niamey V)

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Location of Gorou Banda in Niger

Gorou Banda is a village in the Niamey V arrondissement of the city of Niamey in Niger .

That of a traditional village chief (chef traditionnel) led village is located on the River Niger in the east of the rural area of Niamey V, at the state border with Burkina Faso leading National Straße 27 . The surrounding settlements include the village of Saga Gourma in the northwest, the village of Timéré in the southeast and the hamlets of Dantcha and Langayé in the south. A dry valley that flows into the Niger runs near Gorou Banda . The word gorou comes from the Zarma language and means "dry valley". The Zarma- Postposition banda called "after, behind." The place name Gorou Banda can therefore be translated as "behind the dry valley".

Gorou Banda already existed in the 1970s when the city of Niamey began to expand to the right bank of the Niger. The village was outside the city limits of Niamey until the end of the 20th century and belonged to the arrondissement of Kollo .

At the 2012 census, Gorou Banda had 328 inhabitants who lived in 42 households. At the 1988 census, the population was 93 in 15 households.

The Gorou Banda diesel power plant , which went into operation in 2017, is located near the hamlet .

literature

  • Saadatou Ousseini Moumouni: Inventaire des tephritidae des arbres fruitiers et des cucurbitacées dans la region de Niamey. Cas de la Vallée de Gorou Banda . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carte de référence: Niger - Région de Tillabéri - Département de Torodi. (PDF) In: REACH Resource Center. March 21, 2018, accessed May 2, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ Ibrahim Mamadou: La dynamique accélérée des koris de la région de Niamey et ses conséquences sur l'ensablement du fleuve Niger . Thèse de doctorat Ph.D. Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Niamey / Paris 2012, p. 127 ( researchgate.net [PDF; accessed April 20, 2019]).
  3. ^ Leo Sibomana: Le Zarma parlé. Esquisse grammaticale, lexique, textes . LIT, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0872-3 , pp. 74 .
  4. ↑ République du Niger. Niamey et ses environs. Echelle 1: 20000 . Map. Institut Géographique National, Paris 1978 ( esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu [PDF; accessed April 29, 2019]).
  5. ^ A b Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 216 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 719 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  7. ^ Inauguration de la Centrale thermique diesel de Gorou Banda, vers la fin de calvaire des Niaméens. In: Tamtam Info. April 1, 2017, accessed June 3, 2019 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 26 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E