Garagoumsa

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Garagoumsa rural municipality
Garagoumsa rural community (Niger)
Garagoumsa rural municipality
Garagoumsa rural municipality
Coordinates 13 ° 41 ′  N , 8 ° 32 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 41 ′  N , 8 ° 32 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

cinder
department Takeita
ISO 3166-2 NE-7
Residents 62,220 (2010)

Garagoumsa is a rural municipality in the department Takeita in Niger .

geography

Clay brick production in Garagoumsa (1998)

Garagoumsa is located in the Sahel region . The neighboring communities are Ourafane in the north, Tirmini in the east, Ichirnawa in the southeast, Kantché in the south, Korgom in the southwest and Maïjirgui in the west. The municipality is divided into 44 administrative villages, two traditional villages, 28 hamlets and a camp. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Takeita (also: Takeïta, Takieta, Takiéta).

The 6,720 hectare Forêt classée de Takeita and the 1,840 hectare Forêt classée de Kongome are two protected forest areas in the municipality of Garagoumsa. The first was placed under protection in 1950, the second in 1952.

history

In the 1960s, the markets in the villages of Takeita and Koundoumaoua were important transshipment points for peanuts , Niger's most important export at the time. In 1988, an administrative post ( poste administratif ) was set up in Takeita, a lower administrative unit headed by a chef de poste administratif . The rural municipality of Garagoumsa emerged from the Garagoumsa canton in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform. The administrative post of Takeita was removed from the Mirriah department in 2011 and elevated to the Takeita department.

population

At the 2001 census, Garagoumsa had 45,828 inhabitants. For 2010, 62,220 inhabitants were calculated. Members of the Tuareg sub-groups Mikitan and Tafazarak, who mainly practice agropastoralism , live in Garagoumsa .

Economy and Infrastructure

Garagoumsa at National Road 1 , the place with the regional capital Zinder connects, and at the border with Nigeria leading National Straße 10 . The Goumda Tambari Dam in the municipality was built in 2008.

literature

  • Hayyo Halilou: Pression foncière et gestion des forêts classées dans le département de Mirriah. Cas de la forêt classée de Takiéta . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 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 notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat-niger.org
  2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
  3. ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 2012.
  4. ↑ Yves Péhaut: L'arachide au Niger (=  Études d'économie africaine Série Afrique noire. . No. 1 ). Pedone, Paris 1970, p. 87 .
  5. ^ Frédéric Giraut: Retour du refoulé et effet chef-lieu. Analysis d'une refonte politico-administrative virtual au Niger . PRODIG, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901560-38-5 , pp. 35 ( archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed August 17, 2013]).
  6. ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2014]).
  7. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010; stat-niger.org (PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 57.
  8. ↑ Ministère de l'élevage et des industries animales / République du Niger (ed.): La mobilité pastorale dans la Région de Zinder. Stratégies et dynamisme des sociétés pastorales . Niamey 2009; iram-fr.org ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 11.3 MB) 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 notice. P. 32. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iram-fr.org
  9. ^ Dams of Africa. (xlsx) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), accessed on September 23, 2018 .