Goudoumaria
Region
Goudoumaria is a rural municipality and the capital of the eponymous department Goudoumaria in Niger.
Geography
Goudoumaria located in the Sahel region and is bordered to the south by the neighboring state of Nigeria. The neighboring communities in Niger are N'Guelbély in the northeast, Maïné - Soroa in the east, Boune the southwest, Gouré in the west and trowel in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 193 administrative villages, 146 traditional villages, 54 hamlets, 167 warehouses and 33 water points. The main town of the country church is the administrative village Goudoumaria. In the dunes of Goudoumaria there are several oases that benefit from the low water table.
History
Goudoumaria was in the first half of the 19th century established in a previously uninhabited area, among others, inhabitants of the village Kaoura, which was located near Gouré and has since disappeared. Goudoumaria is next Chétimari, Gouré and Maïné - Soroa one of the most important places in Mangari in which going back to the kingdom of Bornu traditional rule could get.
1964 divided an administrative reform in Niger seven departments, the predecessor of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessor of the later departments. Goudoumaria was the newly created district Gouré slammed later (later Department Gouré ), but was given the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) within the territory of the arrondissement. Later Goudoumaria fell to the neighboring department Maïné - Soroa. As part of a nationwide administrative reform in 2002 showed the rural community Goudoumaria from the Canton Goudoumaria. The administrative posts of Goudoumaria was removed in 2011 from the Department Maïné - Soroa and collected at the Department Goudoumaria.
Population
At the 2001 census Goudoumaria had 72 784 inhabitants. For the year 2010 99.448 inhabitants were calculated. This Goudoumaria is the most populous municipality in the region Diffa.
Economy and infrastructure
Goudoumaria is located on the National Road 1 The municipality soda and salt are obtained. On the market of Goudoumaria is especially soda, dates, and livestock traded, sold by Diffa and Nigeria. In the northern town of Agropastoralismus is the predominant form of economy, south of the rain-fed agriculture.
Personalities
- Abdoulaye Mamani (1932-1993), writer and politician