Daouche

Region

Daouché (also: Daoutché ) is a rural municipality in the Department Kantché in Niger.

Geography

Daouché is located at the junction of Great Landscape Sudan Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Kantché in the northeast, southeast and Tsaouni Korgom in the West. The municipality is divided into 18 administrative villages, four traditional villages, 41 hamlets and six storage. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Daouché (also: Daoutché ).

History

The rural community Daouché went out in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform a part of the canton Kantché.

Population

At the 2001 census Daouché had 25,162 inhabitants. For the year 2010 34.163 inhabitants were calculated. In Daouché members of the mainly Agropastoralismus operated Fulbe subgroup Daourawa live.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is located in that narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, ranging from Tounouga in the west to the east Malawa and operated in irrigated crop production for cash crops.