Madarounfa

Municipality of Madarounfa
Municipality of Madarounfa
Coordinates	13 ° 18 '  N , 7 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 18 '  N , 7 ° 9'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Maradi
department	Madarounfa
Residents	71,832 (2012)

Madarounfa is a municipality and the capital of the Madarounfa department of the same name in Niger .

geography

Madarounfa is located in the greater Sudan landscape . The urban area is divided into five districts, 33 administrative villages, six traditional villages and 16 hamlets. The five neighborhoods are Kahin Sarki, Katchi Nawa, Limantchi, Sabon Gari and Zongo Bougage.

Madarounfa lies on the shores of Lake Mafarounfa, which is fed by the Goulbi N'Gabi River, which dries up at times, and is one of the few permanently open waters in the country. The lake, with an average circumference of five kilometers, reaches its highest water level in the rainy season in July and August. Then the excess water is drained through a channel into the river bed of the Goulbi N'Maradi.

The area around the city was once densely forested. Only remnants are left of it, but one of the greenest regions of Niger with numerous baobabs is located here . The Madarounfa Forest is a 830 hectare protected area where free grazing of cattle is prohibited.

Madarounfa borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the south . The neighboring communities in Niger are Djiratawa and Safo in the north, Dan-Issa in the east and Gabi in the west. The average annual rainfall in Madarounfa is 539 millimeters, the number of rainy days per year on average 40 (measurement period 1995-2006).

history

The French colonial administration made Madarounfa the seat of a canton of the same name in 1944 . The capital of the Maradi arrondissement was moved to Madarounfa in 1966 and the arrondissement was renamed Madarounfa. In 1998, the Madarounfa department emerged from the Madarounfa arrondissement. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the area of ​​the canton Madarounfa was divided into the communities Madarounfa and Dan Issa.

population

At the 1977 census Madarounfa had 3,453 inhabitants, at the 1988 census 5914 inhabitants and at the 2001 census 8743 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, after the municipal area expanded, the population was 71,832. The majority of the population belongs to the Hausa ethnic group .

Culture and sights

The 99 tombs of Madarounfa are located near the city . According to tradition, 99 holy men of Islam are buried here. Twenty of the graves are marked by knee-high stone walls. For the local population, the site is considered a sacred place where strange light phenomena occur.

The forest, the lake and the 99 graves of Madarounfa were in 2006 by the Nigerien Ministry of Culture of UNESCO as a World Heritage proposed.

Economy and Infrastructure

The main branches of the economy are agriculture, livestock and trade. The market days in Madarounfa are Wednesday and Friday. Fishing is carried out on Lake Madarounfa. The lake also serves as a cattle trough. Madarounfa is on national road 18 , which connects the place with the regional capital Maradi .

Madarounfa Primary School was founded in 1948. Since 2001 there has been a district hospital in the city. Madarounfa is also the seat of a Tribunal d'Instance, one of the 30 civil courts nationwide , which are below the ten civil courts of the first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance).

literature

• Abdoul-Matsalabi Batouré: Temps des travaux agricoles et contraintes économiques et sociales d'exécution des opérations culturales en milieu paysan. Cas du village de Kourfin Koura dans le département de Madarounfa . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.
• Younoussa Damo: You tourisme à Madarounfa. Une contribution à l'économie locale . Mémoire. Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2013.
• Issa Dileha: Biodiversité à Madarounfa . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1995.
• Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 .
• Mariatou Koné: La crise alimentaire de 2005 au Niger dans la région de Madarounfa et ses effets sur la malnutrition infantile: approche socio-anthropologique (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 53 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou May 2006 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Institut National de la Statistique; Retrieved January 22, 2011. 
2. ^ Conduite test du protocole regional de suivi des impacts environnementaux de l'exploitation des ressources forestières des plaines sableuses de Baban Rafi (Maradi - Niger). Final report . ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.4 MB) Cellule Régionale de Coordination PREDAS, May 2009; Retrieved March 19, 2012. 
3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 246.
4. ^ Frédéric Giraut: Retour du refoulé et effet chef-lieu. Analysis d'une refonte politico-administrative virtual au Niger . PRODIG, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901560-38-5 , pp. 35 ( archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed August 17, 2013]).
5. ↑ Niger: The most important places with statistics on their population . ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. World Gazetteer; Retrieved December 30, 2009. 
6. ↑ 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 April 21, 2014 (French). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Presentation de la commune de Madarounfa .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the ANIYA Coopération Décentralisée Niger-France, July 2005; Retrieved January 27, 2011.  
8. ↑ La forêt classée, le lac de Madarounfa et les tombeaux des 99 saints . UNESCO; Retrieved December 30, 2009.
9. ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website; Retrieved September 24, 2012.