Médina Yoro Foulah
| Médina Yoro Foulah | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 17 '34 " N , 14 ° 42' 52" W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Kolda | |||
| Department | Médina Yoro Foulah | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-KD | ||
| height | 32 m | ||
| surface | 49 km² | ||
| Residents | 3286 (2013) | ||
| density | 67.1 Ew. / km² | ||
Médina Yoro Foulah is a city in southern Senegal . It is prefecture of the Médina Yoro Foulah department in the Kolda region .
Geographical location
Médina Yoro Foulah is located in the east of Casamance , the part of Senegal that stretches between Gambia and Guinea-Bissau . The city is located 335 kilometers southeast of Dakar and 50 kilometers northeast of the Kolda regional prefecture . The city is located on the upper reaches of the Sofaniama Bolong , the headwaters of which can be found around 16 km east of here and which is heading towards the west as a left southern tributary towards the Gambia . In the north, the border to Gambia comes within seven kilometers of the city center.
history
In 2008 the village of Médina Yoro Foulah, until then part of a communauté rurale of the same name, received the status of a commune (city) and also became the seat of a department. The urban area extends from the seat of the sub-prefecture a certain number of kilometers in all four directions. Mathematically, this resulted in an urban area of 49 km².
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures:
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1988 | ... |
| 2002 | ... |
| 2013 | 3286 |
traffic
Médina Yoro Foulah has no share in the highway network in Senegal . The regional prefecture of Kolda can only be reached via dusty roads, which take detours via Pata and Fafacourou and are 97 and 79 kilometers long. In Kolda there is a connection to the N 6 . In the small town of Pata, 33 kilometers to the northwest, there is a border crossing to Gambia .
The only laterite east-west connection along the Gambian border was built in 1986 and has never been maintained. This is why it is difficult to drive even in the dry season; a bridge over a rock gorge has collapsed and elsewhere floods have destroyed the road and made it impassable.
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
- ↑ CasamanceNews of April 27, 2017: Modernization des axes et territoires frontaliers. The population de Médina Yoro Foulah demandent leur integration