Carakara

This article deals with the community in Niger, for the bird species of the same name see Karakaras .

Karakara rural community
Karakara rural community
Coordinates	12 ° 48 '  N , 3 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 12 ° 48 '  N , 3 ° 38'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Dosso
department	Dioundiou
surface	667 km²
Residents	44,333 (2012)
density	66.5  Ew. / km²

Karakara (also: Kara Kara ) is a rural community in the Dioundiou department in Niger .

geography

Karakara is located in the greater Sudan landscape and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the southeast . The neighboring communities in Niger are Guéchémé in the northeast, Dioundiou in the south, Zabori in the southwest and Karguibangou in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 37 administrative villages, 52 traditional villages, a hamlet and a camp. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Karakara.

The large, periodically water-bearing dry valley Dallol Maouri runs through the municipality . There is a high risk of flooding in Karakara.

history

Karakara in Stieler's Hand Atlas (1891)

Karakara was founded in the 19th century by Hausa , who, according to tradition, immigrated from Bornu . The place submitted to the French mission Voulet-Chanoine on March 18, 1899 . The French established a canton in Karakara at the beginning of the 20th century . As part of a nationwide administrative reform in 2002, the Karakara canton became the Karakara rural community. Since 2011, the rural community no longer belongs to the Gaya department , but to the newly created Dioundiou department.

population

At the 2001 census, Karakara had 31,511 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 44,333.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops . There are several weekly markets in Karakara. Market day is Friday in the main town of Karakara and the administrative village of Yeldou, and Thursday in the administrative village of Massama. National Road 2 runs through Karakara and connects the town with Koré Maïroua and Farey , among others .

Twin town

Since 2007 there has been a town partnership with Mol in Belgium .

Personalities

• Mohamadou Barazé (* 1954), officer

literature

• Issaka Laouali: Contraintes et opportunités du maraîchage d'hivernage dans le dallol Maori. Cas des communes de Kara Kara et Dioundiou . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 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. Website of the Institut National de la Statistique; Retrieved January 22, 2011. 
2. ↑ Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux . Republic of Niger.
3. ↑ 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. 22 , accessed on April 26, 2018 (French). 
4. ↑ Problematique you générale Foncier dans la commune urbaine de Gaya (PDF; 1.4 MB) website development organization SNV, December 2008; Retrieved November 23, 2013.
5. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 206.
6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 241.
7. ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2014]).
8. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010, stat-niger.org (PDF; 3.1 MB) p. 54.
9. ↑ 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). 
10. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009, savethechildren.org.uk ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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; 2.6 MB), p. 8. 
11. ↑ Olivier Walther: Affaires de patrons. Villes et commerce transfrontalier au Sahel . Peter Lang, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-03911-468-9 , p. 193.
12. ↑ Stedenband Kara Kara - Mol . Retrieved February 3, 2012.