Tourakou (Niamey)

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Tourakou district
Coordinates 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey II
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 12,921 (2012)

Tourakou is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey II of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

The boulevard Mali Béro on the border between the Tourakou districts, here on the left, and Boukoki III , here on the right (2018)

Tourakou is located north of Niamey's historic city center. The surrounding districts are Banifandou I in the north, Djeddah Koira Mè in the east, Boukoki II in the southeast, Boukoki III in the south, Issa Béri in the southwest and Dar Es Salam in the west. The district is located on a table land with a layer of sand that is more than 2.5 meters deep, except for the northeast of the district. To the southwest of Tourakou extending Trockental Gounti yena having an alluvial soil having a high water table, which enables no infiltration.

The standard scheme for street names in Tourakou is rue KM 1 , where the French rue for street is followed by KM for Koira Mè and finally a number. This goes back to a project to name streets in Niamey in 2002, in which the city was divided into 44 zones, each with its own letter abbreviations. These zones do not necessarily coincide with the administrative boundaries of the eponymous districts. The rue KM 1 scheme is used not only in Djeddah Koira Mè, but also in Tourakou.

history

Tourakou emerged as a separate city district in the 1990s, when parts of the areas earmarked for infrastructure facilities were rededicated. The place name comes from the Hausa language and means "cattle market". Literally turaaku (plural of turki ) are pegs to which cattle (intended for sale) are tied.

population

At the 2012 census, Tourakou had 12,921 residents who lived in 2,052 households.

Infrastructure

In Tourakou there is a cattle market and a scrap metal market, whose radiance extends into the entire metropolitan area of ​​Niamey. The livestock market was relocated here in 1972 from the site of the later General Seyni Kountché Stadium . In its current form, it dates from 2005 and extends over an area of ​​7 hectares. The scrap metal market has existed since 1970 and is 1.4 hectares in size.

Web links

Commons : Tourakou (Niamey)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 383–384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Lucien Godin, Hugues Leroux, Florence Verdet, Roberto Chavez: Street Addressing and the Management of Cities . World Bank, Washington, DC 2005, ISBN 0-8213-5815-4 , pp. 85 and 89 .
  3. ^ Benjamin Michelon, Laurence Wilhelm, Ibrahima Goumey: Diagnostic de l'armature commerciale de la ville de Niamey. Final report. (PDF) Groupe Huit, March 2015, p. 15 , accessed on April 20, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Amadou Oumarou: Le service public de marché à Balleyara, Guidan Roumdji et Say . In collaboration with Amadou Boubacar (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 90 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou October 2011, p. 26 ( lasdel.net [PDF; accessed October 26, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 716 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  6. ^ Benjamin Michelon, Laurence Wilhelm, Ibrahima Goumey: Diagnostic de l'armature commerciale de la ville de Niamey. Final report. (PDF) Groupe Huit, March 2015, pp. 13, 17 and 19 , accessed on April 20, 2019 (French).