Patte d'Oie

This article covers the municipality of Dakar. For the municipality of Ouagadougou, see Patte d'Oie (Ouagadougou) .

Patte d'Oie Commune d'arrondissement Patte d'Oie
Coordinates	14 ° 44 '56 "  N , 17 ° 26' 35"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 44 '56 "  N , 17 ° 26' 35"  W.
The 19th Communes d'arrondissement in Dakar
Basic data
Country	Senegal
region	Dakar
Department	Dakar
Arrondissement	Arrondissement des Parcelles Assainies
height	7 m
surface	3.1 km²
Residents	41,106 (2013)
density	13,260  Ew. / km²
Street scene in Patte d'Oie

Patte d'Oie is one of the 19 districts (Communes d'arrondissement du Sénégal) of Dakar , the capital of Senegal . The name (in German literally: crow's foot, here meaning fork in the Y-shape of a crow's footprint) is derived from the location at the most important road crossing on the outskirts of Dakar.

geography

Patte d'Oie is an elongated urban district in the northern interior of the Cap-Vert peninsula . The east-west extension is around three and a half kilometers, the south-north extension is around 800 meters.

In the west, Patte d'Oie is bounded by the four-lane expressway Voie de Dégagement Nord (VDN) . The southern border follows Autoroute 1 and the avenue Seydina Limamoulaye , which branches off to the west at the “crow's foot” fork , formerly known as route de l'aéroport , as it led to the former Dakar-Léopold Sédar Senghor airport . The northern boundary of the borough follows the northern feeder road to the Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Route des Niayes . In the east, Patte d'Oie extends to the road that leads south from Cambérène to the N 1 .

The municipality has an area of ​​3.1 km². Neighboring clockwise are the districts of Hann-Bel Air and Grand Yoff in the south, Yoff in the west, Parcelles Assainies in the north and in the east, beyond the city limits, lies the neighboring town of Guédiawaye .

With the exception of the wetlands of the Niayes in the eastern part, the municipality is fully built up and densely populated. Intensive horticulture is practiced in the Niayes . Standing waters can also be found there.

population

The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city district:

year	Residents
1988	...
2002	27 114
2013	41 106

Economy and Infrastructure

The west of the city district is dominated by the stadium area of ​​the Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor , the home stadium of the Senegalese national soccer team and the ASC Jeanne d'Arc soccer club .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Estimation of the population of Dakar par collectivité locale en 2004 Area of ​​the city districts on page 166 of the PDF file 1.12 MB
2. ↑ ANSD: Résultats préliminaires du Troisième Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat du Sénégal de 2002 (RGPH-III) ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) City districts of Dakar with statistics on their population Page 8 of the PDF File 1.64 MB
3. ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013–2063 (RGPHAE 2013) figures for 2013, pages 20–21 of the PDF file 1.44 MB

Web links

• Communes d'arrondissement on the Internet at Ville de Dakar ( Memento from August 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
• Patte d'Oie at Geonames