Dourou

Commune and village in Mopti Region, Mali

14°18′N 3°26′W / 14.300°N 3.433°W / 14.300; -3.433Country

MaliRegionMopti RegionCercleBandiagara CercleArea

^[1]

• Total617 km² (238 sq mi)Population

(2009 census)^[2]

• Total19,411 • Density31/km² (81/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+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]

References

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Mopti) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-27.
^ Moran, Steven; Forkel, Robert; Heath, Jeffrey, eds. (2016). "Dourou". dogonlanguages.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22.