Oudalan

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Oudalan
Basic data
Region : Sahel
Capital : Gorom-Gorom
Departments : 5
High Commissioner :
Area : 9832 km²
Residents : 245,087
(2013 estimate)
ISO 3166-2 : BF-OUD
location
Burkina Faso - Oudalan.svg

Oudalan is a province in the Sahel region in the West African state of Burkina Faso with 245,087 inhabitants (2013) on 9832 km².

The province in the north is named after a Tuareg clan who has ruled Oudalan since the 18th century, but today only has symbolic power.

The province consists of the departments of Déou , Gorom-Gorom , Oursi , Markoye and Tin-Akoff . The capital of the province created in 1984 is Gorom-Gorom. The predominant ethnic groups are Tuareg and Fulbe .

In addition to cattle breeding and the cultivation of millet, the extraction of manganese and gold in the east of the province, near Markoye, is of economic importance.

The entire province is part of the Réserve sylvo-pastorale et partial de faune du Sahel nature reserve .

  • Millet for the tô in Hondotchiré near Oursi

  • Wait and see and drink tea - the Sahelian tea is infused three times

  • The desert date is one of the most common trees in the Oudalan

  • In the northwest of the province there are still large areas with tiger bush

Location of the departments / communes in the province

map No. Department / municipality
1 Déou
2 Gorom-Gorom
3 Oursi
4th Markoye
5 Tin-Akoff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Institut national de la statistique et de la demographie [INSD] (ed.): Annuaire statistique 2013 . December 2014, Tableau 01.01: List des communes par région et par province en 2013 , Tableau 02.17: Population et densité par région et province , Tableau 02.20: Population du Burkina Faso par province de 2001 à 2013 en milieu d'année , p. 5–6, 22–23, 32–35 (French, insd.bf [PDF; 3.2 MB ; accessed on February 27, 2015]).