Hamady Ounaré
| Hamady Ounaré | |||
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 21 ′ N , 13 ° 1 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Matam | |||
| Department | Channel | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-MT | ||
| height | 22 m | ||
| Residents | 10,175 (2013) | ||
Hamady Ounaré , also known as Amady Ounaré , is a town in the Kanel department of the Matam region , in northeast Senegal .
Geographical location
Hamady Ounaré is located in the northeast of the Kanel department, seven and a half kilometers from the border with Mauritania and the border river Senegal . The city borders on the left western edge of the alluvial plain that accompanies the Senegal Current and is criss-crossed by impassable wetlands and watercourses. The longest watercourse that runs through this plain is the Senegal branch of Dioulol , which in parts forms a network of confusing branches and leads past the outskirts of Hamady Ounaré.
Hamady Ounaré is 481 kilometers east of Dakar , 42 kilometers southeast of the Matam regional prefecture and 22 kilometers south of Kanel .
history
The village of Hamady Ounaré was part of the Communauté rurale (rural community) Sinthiou Bamambé and achieved the status of a commune (city) in 2008. Associated with this was the outsourcing of the urban area from the area of the rural community, whose main town and namesake from then on was the village of Ndendory .
population
According to the last census, the city's population has developed as follows:
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1988 | ... |
| 2002 | 9,272 |
| 2013 | 10.175 |
traffic
The national road N 2 connects Hamady Ounaré with all cities in the river regions from Saint-Louis in the west to Kidira in the east of the country. The closest towns on the N2 are Sinthiou Bamambé-Banadji (12 km) in the west and Semmé (22 km) in the south.
Hamady Ounaré is connected to Matam Airport, 52 km away, and the national air transport network via the N2 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Matam: Situation economique et sociale regional 2013 Waters, page 49 of the PDF file 1.42 MB
- ↑ Measure distances with google maps
- ↑ PEPAM: Communauté rurale de Sinthiou Bamande, details par localité
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2008-748 du 10 juillet 2008 portant création de communes dans les régions de ... Matam, ... ( Memento of 10 November 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ PEPAM
- ↑ Measure distance with google maps