Yamoussoukro

Yamoussoukro
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: Climate-Data.org

Yamoussoukro
	Yamoussoukro
	Yamoussoukro
Basic data
District :	Yamoussoukro
Department :	Yamoussoukro
Mayor :	Kouadio Jean Kouacou Gnrangbé
Coordinates :	6 ° 48 ′ N , 5 ° 16 ′ W Coordinates: 6 ° 48 ′ N , 5 ° 16 ′ W
Area :	1057 km²
Residents :	281,735 (2014 census)

Center Yamoussoukros

Yamoussoukro (German also Jamussukro ) has been the capital of the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) since March 1983 .

In the municipality of Yamoussoukro, with Kossou the department of Yamoussoukro is (one of two that the Autonomous District Yamoussoukro form) 281,735 people live (census 2014). This makes the city the fifth largest in the country; Eleventh largest municipality if you count the independent municipalities of Abidjan individually. The municipality is also a sub-prefecture in the same area. The municipal area includes 31 villages. Kouadio Jean Kouacou Gnrangbé was elected Mayor of Yamoussoukros for a further five years in 2013.

Surname

The name Yamoussoukro was created by renaming the settlement N'Gokro in honor of a ruler of the Baule , one of the largest ethnic groups in the Ivory Coast, called Yamoussou. The suffix "Kro" stands for the word "city" in the Baule language .

geography

location

Yamoussoukro is located 150 miles north of Abidjan. The urban area is surrounded by savannah. The district of Yamoussoukro is between 6 ° 15/7 ° 35 N and 4 ° 40/5 ° 40 W.

climate

Yamoussoukro has a tropical climate (equatorial climate ) that is divided into four seasons:

a long season from mid-November to mid-March, in December and January characterized by the presence of the harmattan , a north-east trade wind from Africa that has a strong influence on temperatures;
a long rainy season from mid-March to mid-July;
a short dry season from mid-July to mid-September;
a short rainy season from mid-September to mid-October.

In the rainy season, it rains continuously for several days. The average rainfall varies between 900 and 1100 mm annually with a large variation from year to year. The average temperature of the region is around 26 ° C. The relative humidity varies between 75 and 85% with drops of up to 40% during the Harmattan period and increases of 80 to 85% during the rainy season.

Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Yamoussoukro

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	31.5	33.5	33.5	32.9	31.7	30.1	28.6	28.5	29.3	30.1	30.7	30.1	O	30.9
Min. Temperature (° C)	18.9	21.2	21.8	21.8	21.3	21.1	20.4	20.6	20.4	20.4	20.3	19.0	O	20.6

Precipitation ( mm )	13	42	108	126	155	156	88	83	170	125	36	15th	Σ	1,117

Source: Climate-Data.org

history

Colonial history

At the time of the French colonization, in 1901, Yamoussou was the ruler of the village of N'Gokro. The settlement then had 475 inhabitants and was one of 129 villages of the Akoué, a sub-group of the Baule. The French and the Akoué established diplomatic and business relations, but in 1909 the Akoué rebelled against the colonial administration at the instigation of the village chief of Djamlabo. The Bonzi administrative post, seven kilometers from Yamoussoukro on the road to Boaflé, was set on fire. The French administrator, Simon Maurice, was only spared due to an intervention by Kouassi N'Go. This respected former leader, an uncle of Yamoussou, was able to deter the Akoué from a war that would have led to disaster. When the situation in the area returned to normal, Simon Maurice decided that Bonzi had become too unsafe and the French military post should move to N'Gokro. The French administrators had a pyramid built there in memory of Kouassi N'Go. In honor of the ruler Yamousso, N'Gokro was renamed Yamoussoukro.

In 1919 the civil administration post was dissolved. In 1939 the later Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny became the village chief of Yamoussoukro.

The importance of the city remained rather low until the end of the Second World War, when the Syndicat Agricole Africain (the African Agricultural Syndicate) was founded in Yamoussoukro. But only the independence of the Ivory Coast from France led to sustainable growth of the city.

History since independence

Parliament building of the National Assembly

After 1964, President Félix Houphouët-Boigny had ambitious plans for the city and began to build new buildings. One day in 1965, later known as the "great hour of Yamoussoukro," he visited the plantations with the country's leaders and invited the farmers to transfer the efforts and agricultural successes of the Yamoussoukro region to their lands. On July 21, 1977, Houphouët offered its plantations to the state.

In March 1983, Yamoussoukro became the political and administrative capital of the Ivory Coast. This was the capital's fourth relocation in just a hundred years. The previous capitals of Ivory Coast were Grand-Bassam (1893), Bingerville (1900) and Abidjan (1933). However, most of the country's economic activity still takes place in Abidjan today.

Yamoussoukro was captured by fighters of the Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire on the afternoon of March 30, 2011 in the wake of the government crisis of 2010/2011 .

Attractions

View of Notre-Dame de la Paix

Félix Houphouët-Boigny had one of the largest church buildings in Christendom , the Basilica Notre-Dame de la Paix , and a number of other magnificent buildings built in Yamoussoukro, based on the model of St. Peter's Basilica .

Sports

The club SOA plays for the 2015/16 season in the highest Ivorian league Ligue 1 , RFC Yamoussoukro in the second highest league.

sons and daughters of the town

Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905–1993), first President of the Ivory Coast
Douk Saga (1974–2006), singer and performer
Arthur Gnohéré (* 1978), football player
Narcisse Bonan (born 1984), football player
Cheik Tioté (1986-2017), football player
Seydou Doumbia (* 1987), football player
Koffi Kacou (* 1987), soccer player
Thierry Doubaï (* 1988), football player

Web links

Commons : Yamoussoukro - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Yamoussoukro - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b abidjan.net , October 26, 2013 . Retrieved January 10, 2016.
↑ ^a ^b Results of the 2014 census . Retrieved January 10, 2016.
↑ abidjan.net , June 16, 2013 . Retrieved January 10, 2016.
↑ Reprise post-partum et cyclicité des vaches trypanotolérantes en fonction de la variation Saisonnière en région center Côte d'Ivoire
↑ Dominic Johnson : Gbagbo's regime collapses. In: the daily newspaper. Retrieved April 5, 2011 .
↑ Vatican : CONSACRAZIONE DELLA BASILICA DI NOTRE DAME DE LA PAIX OMELIA DI GIOVANNI PAOLO II September 10, 1990.

[abidjannet-1] abidjan.net , October 26, 2013 . Retrieved January 10, 2016.

[zensus-2] Results of the 2014 census . Retrieved January 10, 2016.

[3] abidjan.net , June 16, 2013 . Retrieved January 10, 2016.

[4] Reprise post-partum et cyclicité des vaches trypanotolérantes en fonction de la variation Saisonnière en région center Côte d'Ivoire

[zusammen-5] Dominic Johnson : Gbagbo's regime collapses. In: the daily newspaper. Retrieved April 5, 2011 .

[6] Vatican : CONSACRAZIONE DELLA BASILICA DI NOTRE DAME DE LA PAIX OMELIA DI GIOVANNI PAOLO II September 10, 1990.