Mboro
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 8 ′ 33 ″ N , 16 ° 53 ′ 16 ″ W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Thiès | |||
| Department | Tivaouane | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-TH | ||
| height | 27 m | ||
| surface | 3.1 km² | ||
| Residents | 27,693 (2013) | ||
| density | 8,819.4 Ew. / km² | ||
 Pirogue on Mboro Beach
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Mboro is a town in the Tivaouane department in the Thiès region , in the central west of Senegal .
Geographical location
Mboro is located around 78 kilometers northeast of Dakar and 23 kilometers north of the regional prefecture of Tivaouane in the fertile wetlands of the Grand Niayes , which stretch along the Grande-Côte from the Cap-Vert peninsula to the Senegal estuary at Saint-Louis , against the salty sea air Protected by a chain of coastal dunes and ideally suited for horticulture .
The sea and the Mboro-sur-Mer district are around five kilometers from the city center in the northwest. In the south it borders Darou Khoudoss , capital of the communauté rurale of the same name.
history
Around 1862–1863, the French colonial administration first became aware of the village of Mboro. After investigations of the terrain and the soil, it was decided in 1936 to open up the area for fruit and horticulture and to promote the settlement of this fertile area.
On the Grande Côte, especially around Mboro, the coastal dunes were stabilized with Canadian support by planting filao ( horsetail casuarines ) and protected from erosion by the sea winds.
The place Mboro received the legal status of a commune (city) in 2002 .
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1988 | 13,542 |
| 2002 | 11,809 |
| 2013 | 27,693 |
traffic
Mboro is not served by the highways in Senegal . Rather, a well-developed regional road branches off in Tivaouane from the N 2 to there.
economy
Originally, the main industries in Mboro were horticulture and fishing. There was also tourism because of its proximity to the coast. Thanks to the economic strength of the nearby phosphate mines with their well-paid workers, Mboro's population and infrastructure have developed well.
See also
Web links
- Mboro, carrefour des Niayes
- Mboro near Planete-Senegal
- Abdoulaye MBAYE 2012: Rôle d'une ville secondaire in the organization de son hinterland: le cas de Mboro in the region de Thiès
- Mboro at Geonames
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mboro-sur-Mer at Geonames
- ↑ Measure distances with google maps
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2002-171 du 21 févier 2002 portant création des communes de Mboro, ... ( Memento of March 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population