Keur Massar

Keur Massar Commune d'arrondissement Keur Massar
Coordinates	14 ° 47 '4 "  N , 17 ° 18' 34"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 47 '4 "  N , 17 ° 18' 34"  W.
The 16 communes d'arrondissement in Pikine
Basic data
Country	Senegal
region	Dakar
Department	Pikins
Arrondissement	Arrondissement des Niayes
height	16 m
surface	22 km²
Residents	201,653 (2013)
density	9166  Ew. / km²
Keur Massar 2011

Keur Massar is the most populous and largest in area of ​​the 16 districts (Communes d'arrondissement du Sénégal) of Pikine , the largest city in Senegal even before the capital Dakar .

geography

Keur Massar is located in the northeast of the bottle neck of Cap-Vert peninsula between the southern neighbor and the Autoroute 1 intersected Forêt classée de Mbao (FCM) and the northern adjacent Strandsee Lac Mbeubeuss (inclusive), the western part of the discharge layer de Mbeubeuss is known and serves as the central landfill of the Dakar metropolitan area. The residential areas of the city district extend in between. With the exception of the flood-prone depressions, which are scattered everywhere, after all, Keur Massar is located in the wetlands of the Niayes , the municipality is almost completely built up.

The city district has an area of ​​22.0 km². The borderline results from a satellite photo released in 2019 as part of an official documentation. Neighboring clockwise are the urban districts of Mbao in the south, Yeumbeul Sud and Yeumbeul north in the west, Malika in the north and the rural community of Tivaouane Peulh-Niaga , the city of Jaxaay-Parcelles-Niakoul Rap and the urban district Rufisque Ouest of the neighboring town of Rufisque in the east .

population

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

year	Residents
1988	...
2002	57 253
2013	201 653

traffic

Keur Massar is located a little north of the traffic axes of the Cap-Vert Peninsula, on which the west-east traffic flows between the metropolis of Dakar and the rest of the country. This traffic is served by the national road N 1 , as well as the Dakar – Niger railway , and with the nearby junction 8 of the toll Autoroute 1 in the Forêt de Mbao , the district has a fast connection to the west with the capital Dakar and to the east with the new international airport Dakar-Blaise Diagne .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lac Mbeubeuss at Geonames
2. ↑ Singaravélou, Comité national français de geographie. Commission "Espaces tropicaux et leur développement" - 1997: La décharge de Mbeubeuss , p. 493 in the Google book search
3. ↑ 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
4. ^ Agence nationale de l'Aménagement du Territoire (ANAT), December 20, 2019: Missions de démarcation de communes. Jaxaay-Parcelles Assainies-Niakoul Rab / Mbao / Keur Massar / Rufisque Ouest / Tivaouane Peul-Niaga
5. ^ Boundary course in the satellite photo ( Memento from January 6, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Program de gestion des déchets des déchets solid urbains de la région de Dakar, annual report 2016 Municipal boundaries of the metropolitan region of Dakar see page 30 of the 3.84 MB PDF file
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