Rosso (Senegal)
| Rosso (Senegal) | |||
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| Coordinates | 16 ° 30 ′ N , 15 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Saint-Louis | |||
| Department | Dagana | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-SL | ||
| height | 8 m | ||
| Residents | 15,870 (2013) | ||
Rosso (Senegal) , the bracketed differentiator is also part of the officially used spelling, is a city in the Dagana department in the Saint-Louis region , in northern Senegal . The city is the main border crossing with Mauritania .
Geographical location
Rosso (Senegal) is located on the lower reaches of the Senegal Current , which meanders in a westerly direction and forms the border with the northern neighboring country of Mauritania. Before the Diama Dam was built , the influence of the tides and sea water made itself felt far beyond Rosso through the regular rise and fall of the water level in the river.
On the northern bank of Senegal, which is around 450 meters wide, opposite Rosso, the neighboring city of Rosso (Mauritania) is more than twice as large . Lac de Guiers, which is important for the water supply of the Dakar metropolitan region, is 14 kilometers south of Rosso .
Rosso is located in the north of the Saint-Louis region , 268 kilometers northeast of Dakar, 91 kilometers northeast of the regional prefecture of Saint-Louis and 32 kilometers west of the departmental prefecture of Dagana . It is 14 kilometers to the neighboring town of Richard Toll upstream .
history
The village of Rosso was founded in 1854. Due to its location in the lowland of the river, it was hit twice by severe floods, in 1950 and 1964. Also in 1964, Rosso was connected to the Route Nationale n ° 2. A year later, the Rosso market was opened. In 1966 the great mosque of Rosso was inaugurated. And in the same year the city was protected against flooding by building a new dike.
In 1982 Rosso became the capital of a communauté rurale and two years later it was connected to the electricity network. The first rice fields were created in 1985.
During the Mauritanian-Senegalese border war, Rosso suffered from the closure of the border. In 1992 diplomatic relations between the two countries were resumed.
In 2002 Rosso-Sénégal received the legal status of a commune (city) and was defined within its boundaries.
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1988 | ... |
| 2002 | 9,328 |
| 2013 | 15,870 |
traffic
Rosso is a few kilometers off the national road N 2 , as it usually avoids the densely populated Senegal lowlands, which are criss-crossed by impassable wetlands and watercourses. The N2 connects the metropolitan region of Dakar with all cities in the river regions from Saint-Louis in the west to Kidira in the east of the country.
South of the city there is a junction of the N2, the 5.9 kilometers long N2B, as a branch line to Rosso (Senegal). It leads through the city to the Senegal bank at the ramp to the Rosso ferry and continues on the other bank in the Mauritanian N2 . The N2B will thus become part of the Cairo-Dakar Highway on the stage from Dakar to the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott .
Rosso is connected to the national air transport network via Richard Toll Airport, which is 18 kilometers away .
economy
The main livelihoods of the population are agriculture, especially the cultivation of rice and vegetables, as well as trade, handicrafts and fishing. Informal trade is developing particularly well due to its proximity to Mauritania in the goods segment in which supply and demand depend on price differences on this side and the other side of the border.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Souleymane Diallo 2004-2005: Les échanges transfrontaliers entre la ville de Rosso Sénégal et la Mauritanie: Organization et impacts (Cross-border exchange between the city of Rosso Senegal and Mauritania: organization and effects)
- ↑ Measure distances with google maps
- ↑ onwar.com:Mauitanian-Senegalese Border War 1989-1991 , accessed on July 5, 2018
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2002-171 du 21 févier 2002 portant création des communes de ... Rosso-Sénégal ... ( Memento of March 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population