Nioro du Sahel

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Nioro du Sahel
Nioro du Sahel (Mali)
Red pog.svg
Coordinates 15 ° 14 ′  N , 9 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 15 ° 14 ′  N , 9 ° 35 ′  W
Basic data
Country Mali

region

Kayes
ISO 3166-2 ML-1
Residents 33,486 (2009)
Street scene in Nioro in February 2014
Street scene in Nioro in February 2014

Nioro du Sahel is a city in the Kayes region of western Mali . In 2009 there were about 33,500 inhabitants in the city.

Geographical location

Nioro du Sahel is about 215 kilometers east of Kayes and about 330 kilometers northwest of the capital Bamako near the Mauritanian border. The city is located in the Sahel zone or the northern Sudan zone . A river that only carries water in the rainy season between late June and early October flows through the city from south to north towards Mauritania, where it is lost in the semi-desert .

Climate table

Nioro du Sahel
Climate diagram
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24
 
 
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41
27
 
 
46
 
39
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133
 
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149
 
33
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92
 
35
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37
23
 
 
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18th
 
 
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32
14th
Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: wetterkontor.de
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Nioro du Sahel
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 31.4 34.7 37.5 40.0 41.3 39.4 34.8 32.9 34.5 37.3 35.7 31.6 O 35.9
Min. Temperature (° C) 13.5 16.1 19.1 23.6 27.2 27.0 24.6 23.6 23.6 22.6 18.2 14.2 O 21.1
Precipitation ( mm ) 1 0 0 3 7th 46 133 149 92 26th 1 1 Σ 459
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 8.4 8.7 8.9 8.9 8.5 8.4 8.0 7.9 8.3 8.4 8.5 7.9 O 8.4
Rainy days ( d ) 0 0 0 1 2 5 10 10 8th 3 0 0 Σ 39
Humidity ( % ) 24 22nd 20th 20th 26th 42 61 70 65 43 28 26th O 37.3
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27.2
39.4
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34.8
24.6
32.9
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Source: wetterkontor.de

history

Founded in the 16th or 17th centuries by a slave named Diawandé , Nioro reached a heyday in the 18th century when it was the capital of Kaarta , a Bambara empire . The place became a major trading center between the Upper Senegal River and Sudan .

The Tukulor and conquerors Al-Hajj Omar raided in the early 1850s Kaarta and forced the conversion of the kingdom to Islam . In 1854 he had a large mosque built in Nioro . In the 1920s, Nioro became the center of the Hamālīya, a branch of the Tijaniyya . In 1936, the followers of the order, also known as Hamallists, changed their qibla and from then on prayed to Nioro, which they called their Mecca .

Infrastructure

West of the city is a regional airport , the Aéroport de Nioro . Also to the west of the city is the Malian national road N3, which leads from the Mauritanian border in the north to the national road N1 in the south, which in turn connects the capital Bamako.

Sons and daughters of the place

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ INSTAT: Results of the 2009 census (PDF; 860 kB), at Webcite.
  2. ↑ Cf. JC Froelich: Art. "Ḥamāliyya" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. III, pp. 107-108, here 108a.

Web links

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