Birni Lalle

Region

Birni LaLLe (also Birnin LaLLe ) is a rural municipality in the department of Dakoro in Niger.

Geography

Birni LaLLe lies in the Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Azagor, Bermo, Dakoro and Roumbou I in the north, Bader Goula in the east, Adjékoria, Korahane and Kornaka in the south and Azèye and Babankatami in the West. The municipality is divided into 43 administrative villages, 14 traditional villages, 21 hamlets, five bearings and a water source. The main town of the country church is the administrative village Birni LaLLe.

The Forêt de classée Birni LaLLe is a 48 -acre protected nature woodland, which is located immediately east of the main town. The protected status was made in 1951.

History

The name Birni LaLLe comes from the Hausa language and means " citadel of happiness ". Birni LaLLe was the first known capital Gobirs, later the people of Gobir moved further south. The ruins of the old Birni LaLLe are still available today. In the 1920s, some families from Tibiri settled in the town. 1947 advised the French colonial administration a canton in Birni LaLLe and untied the place so from the existing Canton Kornaka out. As part of a nationwide administrative reform of 2002, the territory of the canton Birni LaLLe to the rural communities Birni LaLLe and Azagor, Korahane and Roumbou I was divided. Parts of the canton were also at the departmental capital Dakoro.

Population

At the 2001 census Birni LaLLe had 22,477 inhabitants. For the year 2010 30.391 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is located in a zone is operated in the Agropastoralismus. By Birni LaLLe the National Road 30, which connects the village with the neighboring communities Dakoro and Kornaka runs.