Soucoucoutane
| Rural municipality of Soucoucoutane | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 11 ' N , 3 ° 53' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
| Dosso | |||
| department | Dogondoutchi | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-3 | ||
| Residents | 38,700 (2012) | ||
Soucoucoutane (also: Soukoukoutane ) is a rural community in the Dogondoutchi department in Niger .
geography
Soucoucoutane is located in the southern Sahel . The neighboring communities are Kourfeye Center in the northwest, Dogonkiria in the northeast, Matankari in the southeast, Dogondoutchi in the south and Loga in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 14 administrative villages, 68 traditional villages, seven hamlets and two camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Soucoucoutane (also: Soukoukoutan).
The large, periodically water-bearing dry valley Dallol Maouri runs through the municipality in a north-south direction . There is a high risk of flooding in Soucoucoutane.
history
The rural community of Soucoucoutane emerged as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the north-western part of the canton of Dogondoutchi.
population
At the 2001 census, Soucoucoutane had 26,888 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 38,700.
Economy and Infrastructure
The community lies at the transition from the zone of rain-fed agriculture in the south to the zone of agropastoralism in the north. 97% of the population of Soucoucoutane work in agriculture. The groundwater level lies at a depth of 50 to 400 meters, which makes it difficult to access drinking water.
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ M. Tiepolo, M. Ali, M. Bacci, S. Braccio, H. Issa, AZ Oumarou: Analyze du risque d'inondation dans les communes de la Région de Dosso au Niger, 1998-2016. (PDF) Projet ANADIA 2.0, report no. 5. Agence Italienne pour la Coopération au Développement, 2018, pp. 10 and 22 , accessed on April 26, 2018 (French).
- ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 54.
- ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (French).
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.
- ↑ Présentation de la commune de Soucoucoutane ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the ANIYA Coopération Décentralisée Niger-France, accessed on February 13, 2012.
