Kounkané
| Kounkané | |||
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 55 '48 " N , 14 ° 4' 47" W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Kolda | |||
| Department | Vélingara | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-KD | ||
| height | 34 m | ||
| surface | 32 km² | ||
| Residents | 10,798 (2013) | ||
| density | 337.4 Ew. / km² | ||
Kounkané is a town in the Vélingara department of the Kolda region , in the south of Senegal .
Geographical location
Kounkané is located in the west of the Vélingara department , in the east of the Casamance and on the southern edge of the Vélingara crater . To the west of the city, the Niandouba flows south to the Kayanga on its way out of the crater . The Niandouba separates the cities of Kounkané and Diaobé-Kabendou from one another, but they are connected to each other by a combined dam-bridge construction around 220 meters long.
Kounkané is located 413 kilometers southeast of Dakar , 93 kilometers east of the regional prefecture of Kolda and 24 kilometers south of Vélingara .
history
The village of Kounkané achieved the status of a commune (city) in 2008. The urban area, measured from the intersection of the road to Sous-Préfecture with the N6, extends a certain number of kilometers in all four directions. This resulted in a city area of 32.0 km². The borders include the ten villages Saré Bourang, Saré Samba Laba, Thianfara Maoundé, Sara Sory, Médina Oumar, Ndorna Bounda, Missirah Mamadou, Médina Pathé, Saré Kalilou and Koulandiala and extend in the west to the Niandouba River .
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures:
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1988 | ... |
| 2002 | ... |
| 2013 | 10,798 |
traffic
Kounkané is a stage on the national road N 6 , which, starting from the city and port city of Ziguinchor , connects the south and east of Casamance via Tambacounda with the rest of the country.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Measure distances with google maps
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2008-748 du 10 juillet 2008 portant création de communes dans les régions de ... Kolda, ... ( Memento of 10 November 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population