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| Rural community of Karofane | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 19 ′ N , 6 ° 9 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Bouza | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-5 | ||
| Residents | 77,796 (2012) | ||
Karofane (also: Korafane ) is a rural community in the Bouza department in Niger .
geography
Karofane is located in the Sahel . The neighboring communities are Bouza in the northwest, Babankatami in the northeast, Ourno in the southeast and Madaoua in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 37 administrative villages, 73 hamlets, a camp and a water point. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Karofane. It is located on the edge of the Tarka Valley , which runs from the Tanout department in the Zinder region to the Rima River in Nigeria .
The Forêt classée de Karofane is a 4020 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Karofane. It was placed under protection in 1955.
history
The rural community Karofane emerged from part of the canton of Bouza in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform.
population
At the 2001 census, Karofane had 44,569 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 77,796.
Economy and Infrastructure
The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. There is a cattle market in Karofane. The market day is Thursday.
literature
- Mohamed Assadeck: Diagnostic participatif de l'agrosystème villageois de Jankadami et proposition d'un plan de development . Center Régional d'Enseignement Spécialisé en Agriculture (CRESA), Niamey 1996.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 2012.
- ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 55.
- ↑ 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 May 1, 2014 (French).
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.
- ^ Mahamadou Saley, Yatta Paul Maurice Mohamed: Projet Régional d'Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS). Etude diagnostique des Systèmes d'Information sur les marchés à bétail du Burkina Faso, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad. Définitif report. (PDF) CILSS , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018 (French).
