Tchake

Region

Tchaké is a rural municipality in the Department Mayahi in Niger.

Geography

Tchaké lies in the Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Tagriss in the north, El Allassane Maïreyrey in the east, Mayahi in the south, Attantané in the southwest and guidan Amoumoune in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 26 administrative villages, 47 hamlets and five storage. The main town of the country church is the administrative village Tchaké.

History

Before the arrival of the French at the turn of the 19th to 20th century Tchaké part of the independent state of Katsina. The rural community Tchaké left in 2002 at a nationwide administrative reform from the northwestern part of the canton of Kanan - Bakaché forth. When the floods in West and Central Africa 2010 133 inhabitants of Tchaké were classified as disaster victims.

Population

At the 2001 census Tchaké had 29,000 inhabitants. For the year 2010 39.175 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is situated on the southern edge of a zone is operated in the Agropastoralismus.