Guinaw Rail Sud

Guinaw Rail Sud Commune d'arrondissement Guinaw Rail Sud
Coordinates	14 ° 44 '59 "  N , 17 ° 23' 9"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 44 '59 "  N , 17 ° 23' 9"  W.
The 16 communes d'arrondissement in Pikine
Basic data
Country	Senegal
region	Dakar
Department	Pikins
Arrondissement	Arrondissement de Pikine Dagoudane
height	10 m
surface	1.3 km²
Residents	39,859 (2013)
density	30,660.8  Ew. / km²

Guinaw Rail Sud is one of the 16 districts (Communes d'arrondissement du Sénégal) of Pikine , the largest city in Senegal before the capital Dakar . The expression "Guinaw Rail" comes from the Wolof language, which is widespread in Senegal, and means "behind the rails" and thus describes the districts that were created without urban planning through wild growth on the southern edge of Alt-Pikine on the other side of the Dakar-Niger railway line . As of 2013, the city district was part of the Restructuration de Pikine Irrégulier Sud (PIS) , a 700 hectare district redevelopment that affects 220,000 residents as part of the motorway project L'autoroute à péage Dakar – Diamniadio for the construction of Autoroute 1 .

geography

Guinaw Rail Sud is located in the southern center of the bottleneck of the Cap-Vert peninsula on both sides of Autoroute 1 and between the Dakar – Niger railway in the north-west and the N 1 national road in the south.

The city district, which is roughly an obtuse-angled triangle with a truncated eastern corner, has an area of ​​1.3 km². The east-west extension of the district is around 2000 meters, the south-north extension varies between 300 and 1000 meters. To the north of Autoroute 1, the city district is fully built up and very densely populated. The roughly 300 meter wide strip in the south between the A1 and the N1 is largely used for commercial purposes. Among other things, there is a large Dakar Dem Dikk bus depot in the east as well as extensive parking spaces for trucks. In the west, the factory halls of the Societe Industrielle de Papeterie au Senegal (SIPS) dominate .

South of the N1 is the district of Thiaroye sur Mer . Beyond the railway line in the north-west, the boroughs of Pikine Ouest and Pikine Est are neighboring. In the northeast, the development merges into the Guinaw Rail Nord district . In the east, the Route des Niayes forms the demarcation from the Tivaouane Diacksao district .

population

The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city district:

year	Residents
1988	...
2002	38 422
2013	39 859

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Un film de Kady Diedhiou 2014: Guinaw Rails (Derrière les Rails) Behind The Rails
2. ↑ Association Waranka GR. Valoriser et Améliorer les Ressources et l'Environnement des Quartiers de Guinaw Rail
3. ^ Projet de l'autoroute à péage Dakar-Diamniadio. Restructuration de Pikine Irrégulier Sud. Rapport etude d'Impact Environnemental et social, February 2013 , PDF file 6.67 MB
4. ^ City districts of Pikine in Monographie de Dakar 2014 page 5 of the PDF file 4.4 MB
5. ↑ Measure distances with google maps
6. ↑ Estimation of the population of Dakar par collectivité locale en 2004 Area of ​​the city districts on page 166 of the PDF file 1.12 MB
7. ↑ ANSD: Résultats préliminaires du Troisième Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat du Sénégal de 2002 (RGPH-III) ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) City districts of Pikine with statistics on their population Page 9 of the PDF File 1.64 MB
8. ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013–2063 (RGPHAE 2013) Figures for 2013, pages 21–22 of the PDF file 1.44 MB

Web links

• Guinaw Rail Sud on the Internet
• Jenny Axelsson & Martin Linge, Lund 2012: Why do people live in Guinaw Rails South? - a study of why people live in a high-risk community