Dourou

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Dourou
Commune and village
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Dourou
Location in Mali
Coordinates: 14°18′N3°26′W / 14.300°N 3.433°W / 14.300; -3.433 Coordinates: 14°18′N3°26′W / 14.300°N 3.433°W / 14.300; -3.433
CountryFlag of Mali.svg  Mali
Region Mopti Region
Cercle Bandiagara Cercle
Area
[1]
 • Total617 km2 (238 sq mi)
Population
 (2009 census) [2]
 • Total19,411
 • Density31/km2 (81/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+0 (GMT)

Dourou (Dúrù) is a village and rural commune in the Bandiagara Cercle of the Mopti Region of Mali. [3] The commune contains 28 villages along the Bandiagara Escarpment which together at the time of the 2009 census had a population of 19,411. Around 95 percent of the population is Dogon with the remainder being Fulani. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Dourou 2006-2010 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-05, retrieved 2012-04-25.
  2. ↑ Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Mopti) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-19.
  3. ↑ Moran, Steven; Forkel, Robert; Heath, Jeffrey, eds. (2016). "Dourou". dogonlanguages.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22.


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