Ayourou
Region
Ayérou ( official spelling, also Ayorou ) is a rural municipality and the capital of the eponymous department Ayérou in Niger.
Geography
The municipality is situated on the east bank of the River Niger in the Sahel. Here ends the Béli to Niger. Ayérou bordered to the north by the neighboring country of Mali. The neighboring communities in Niger are Inatès in the east, in the southeast Anzourou, Dessa in the south, southwest and Gorouol Bankilaré in the west. The municipality is divided into 15 administrative villages ( including Doulsou ), three traditional villages, 62 hamlets, 20 warehouses and 20 water points divided. The main town of the country church is Ayérou consisting of the administrative villages Ayorou Goungou, Ayourou Goungou Koré and Ayorou Haoussa.
The old town is located on a namesake island in the Niger, which gave its name to the community. Riverside section at Ayérou live hippos and at least 33 different waterfowl species, including bump gloss geese, Witwenpfeifgänse and crowned cranes.
History
Once the ruler of the Songhai eich Sonni Ali had died in 1492, rebelled whose former military leader Askia Muhammad against Sonni Ali's son and successor, Sonni Baru and defeated him in 1493 in a battle. Sonni Baru fled to Ayérou and established there own little State which, after constant attacks defeated in 1500 and was incorporated into the Songhai calibration.
The German explorer Heinrich Barth visited the settlement, for which he used the spellings Ayōru and Airu, in 1854. He described it as a quiet village whose inhabitants mostly tall were engaged in agriculture. 1899 reached the area of Ayérou as part of the newly created circle Sinder ( cercle de Sinder ) under French military administration. 1905 Ayérou was the new military territory of Niger ( Territoire Militaire du Niger ) connected.
1964 was divided into seven administrative reform Niger departments, the predecessor of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessor of the later departments. Ayérou was added to the newly created district Tilabéri, but was given the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) within the territory of the arrondissement. Administrative posts were special territorial units one level below arrondissements that were regarded as a kind of precursor to a later conversion into a separate district. In 1998, the former arrondissements of Niger were converted into departments. The village of Daya in the municipality of Ayérou was affected by the floods in West and Central Africa in 2010: 707 inhabitants were classified as disaster victims. The administrative posts of Ayérou was removed in 2011 from the Department Tilabéri and collected at the Department Ayérou.
Population
At the 2001 census Ayérou had 24,901 inhabitants. For the year 2010 32.958 inhabitants were calculated.
52 % of the population of Ayérou were classified in a study of the French NGO ACTED as poor or very poor 2011. More than 72 % of the population had access to latrines in the vicinity, in comparison with other municipalities in the north of Tilabéri region of high value.
Economy and infrastructure
Sunday is market day in Ayérou. The market then extends over large parts of the city, from the river to the main road. The municipality is located in a zone prevails in the Agropastoralismus. By Ayérou the National Road 1, the upstream runs along the Niger to the border with Mali and downstream towards the capital Niamey runs. The river itself is navigable with canoes.
Partner community
- Longpont -sur -Orge in France