Farako, Ségou
Farako | |
|---|---|
Commune and town | |
Farako Location in Mali | |
| Coordinates: 13°24′37″N 6°23′12″W / 13.41028°N 6.38667°W | |
| Country | Mali |
| Region | Ségou Region |
| Cercle | Ségou Cercle |
| Population (2009 census)[1] | |
• Total | 17,570 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Farako is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Ségou in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. The commune lies on the north bank of the Niger River and contains 11 settlements in an area of 200 square kilometers.[3] In the 2009 census it had a population of 17,570.[1] The town of Farako is the chef-lieu of the commune.
Farako was an important military garrison town under the Segou Empire.[4]
References
- ^ a b Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Ségou) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link). - ^ Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, archived from the original on 2012-01-06. commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
- ^ Communes de la Région de Ségou (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09.
- ^ Segou: Warfare and the Origins of a State of Slavery, by Kevin MacDonald and Seydou Camara, in Lane, Paul, and Kevin C. MacDonald (eds), Slavery in Africa: Archaeology and Memory, Proceedings of the British Academy (London, 2011), page 30 https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264782.001.0001.
External links
- Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Farako 2007-2011 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2007.