Kidira

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Kidira
Kidira (Senegal)
Red pog.svg
Coordinates 14 ° 27 ′  N , 12 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 14 ° 27 ′  N , 12 ° 13 ′  W
Basic data
Country Senegal

region

Tambacounda
Department Bakel
ISO 3166-2 SN-TC
height 40 m
Residents 10,065 (2013)
politics
Maire Demba Thiam (2014)

Kidira is a municipality in eastern Senegal . It is located in the Bakel department in the Tambacounda region .

Geographical location

Kidira is located in the east of Senegal on the border river Falémé . Two bridges, a road bridge and a railway bridge lead to the neighboring town of Diboli on the other side of the border with Mali . The city is located around 600 km east of the capital Dakar . Next to Bakel and Diawara, Kidira is the third town in the Bakel department.

climate

Due to the Harmattan wind blowing from the east , temperatures rise from March to June to up to 40 ° C. Then the southwest monsoon brings the rainy season in August and September. In the winter months, temperatures are more moderate with an average of 23 ° C. The strong easterly winds contribute significantly to soil erosion in the region.

Administrative division and population

Kidira was made a community ( commune ) on July 14, 2008 and consists of the settlements Kidira, Sinthiou Dioyé, Diboly and Bocar . 50% of the population are young people, the proportion of women predominates. The people belong to the ethnic groups of the Peulh , Bambara , Soninké , Maure and Wolof . The 2013 census gave the city a population of 10,065.

Mayor is Demba Thiam from the Alliance pour la république (APR) , who replaced the previous incumbent Mamadou Diallo from the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais (PDS) after the election on July 14, 2014 .

Transport and infrastructure

As a regionally important traffic junction, Kidira is on the national road N 1 , which connects Dakar in a west-east direction via Tambacounda with the border with Mali, and on the N 2 , which leads from Pout in the west via Saint-Louis on a northern route to Kidira. In addition, the Kidira train station is the border station to Mali on the Dakar – Niger railway line .

In Kidira there are posts of the gendarmerie, the Direction de le police de l'air et des frontiéres (DPAF) , which is comparable to an immigration authority, the customs authority as well as a health center and a post office. There are various schools, training centers and kindergartens.

Partnerships

With the Württemberg Baden- community Pfinztal is Kidira linked since 2012 by a project partnership of the local nature lovers has been initiated in the district -Ortsgruppe Berghausen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Tambacounda: Situation economique et sociale regional 2013, page 113 of the PDF file 1.10 MB
  2. ↑ kidira.net from July 20, 2014: Kidira a un nouveau Maire ( Memento from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.pfinztal.de/pfinztal/pfinztal_partner.php

Web links

Commons : Kidira  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files