Salémata (department)
The Salémata department is one of 45 departments that make up Senegal and one of three departments that make up the Kédougou region . It is located in the southeast of Senegal with the capital Salémata , bordered in the south by the neighboring country Guinea-Conakry and in the north by the Gambia River , on the opposite bank of which the Niokolo-Koba National Park begins.
The department has an area of 1970 km² and is divided into arrondissements, communes and rural communes (Communautés rurales) as follows:
| Commune / Arrondissement |
Communauté rurale |
Residents 2013 |
| Salémata | - | 4,751 |
| Dakateli | Dakateli | 3,676 |
| Dakateli | Kévoye | 4,334 |
| Dar Salam | Dar Salam | 3,883 |
| Dar Salam | Ethiolo | 3,331 |
| Dar Salam | Oubadji | 2.135 |
| Department | - | 22,111 |
Infrastructure
The infrastructure of the department is poor. It has only a single post office and not a single bank branch or gas station. Not a single road is paved. 60% of the villages have no telephone connection. Electric power is hardly available even in the city of Salémata. There is no supply of clean drinking water. The population depends on water from rivers, so water-borne diseases are widespread. 90% of the schools are only poorly roofed. Several places are cut off from the outside world by rivers for 9 out of 12 months. This applies equally to Ethiolo, Oubadji and Dakatéli.
Individual evidence
- ^ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Demographie de Kédougou: Situation economique et sociale regional 2013 Area, page 24 of the PDF file 4.34 MB
- ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013 - 2063 (RGPHAE 2013) Region Kédougou, pages 31 and 32 of the PDF file 1.44 MB
Web links
- Allafrica, November 13, 2015: Conseil départemental de Salémata - Un territoire qui manque presque de tout
- Department de Salémata near Geonames
Administrative division of Senegal
Coordinates: 12 ° 30 ′ N , 12 ° 45 ′ W