Léré, Mali

Léré
Commune and town
Léré

Location in Mali

Coordinates: 15°42′55″N 4°54′15″W / 15.71528°N 4.90417°W / 15.71528; -4.90417Coordinates: 15°42′55″N 4°54′15″W / 15.71528°N 4.90417°W / 15.71528; -4.90417
Country  Mali
Region Tombouctou Region
Cercle Niafunké Cercle
Area[1]
 • Total 1,342 km2 (518 sq mi)
Elevation 266 m (873 ft)
Population (2009 census)[2]
 • Total 16,072
 • Density 12/km2 (31/sq mi)
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)

Léré is a small town and rural commune of the Cercle of Niafunké in the Tombouctou Region of Mali. The commune covers an area of approximately 1,342 square kilometers and contains the town and 18 villages.[3] In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 16,072.[2]

The town is around 60 km east of the Mauritanian border. A weekly market is held in the town on Fridays that attracts people from the surrounding settlements.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali", United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/mali Missing or empty |title= (help). commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
  2. 1 2 Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Tombouctou) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique.
  3. ↑ Communes de la Région de Tombouctou (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original on 19 September 2012.
  4. ↑ Quensière, Jacques, ed. (1994), La pêche dans le delta central du Niger: approche pluridisciplinaire d'un système de production halieutique (PDF) (in French), Paris: ORSTOM, Karthala, p. 539 Carte VI, ISBN 2709912023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/19/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.