Gouchi

Region

Gouchi (also: Gouchy ) is a rural municipality in the Department Dungass in Niger.

Geography

Gouchi located in the northeast of the Department and is located at the junction of Great Landscape Sudan Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Guidimouni in the north, and Guidiguir Boune in the east, and Dungass Malawa in the south and Wacha in the West. The municipality is divided into 42 administrative villages, 67 traditional villages, 34 hamlets, 17 bearings and a water source. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Gouchi.

History

In the 19th century Gouchi and today the municipality Gouchis scoring villages Matarawa and Yakaouda were three Kanuri settlements without a common political administration, which initially was able to preserve their independence against the larger dominions of the surrounding area is. They entered into an alliance with the Sossébaki State Wacha. When the Sultan of Zinder Wacha been reached to Gouchi however, took the side of the Sultan. After a series of small wars Gouchi became part of the Sultanate of Zinder end of the 19th century. Beginning of the 20th century taught the French colonial administration a canton in a Gouchi. 2002 emerged the rural community Gouchi as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the Canton Gouchi. Since 2011 part of the rural community not to Magaria Department, but for the newly established Department Dungass.

Population

At the 2001 census Gouchi had 34 215 inhabitants. For the year 2010 46.458 inhabitants were calculated. In Gouchi live alongside members of the Kanuri especially Agropastoralismus operated Fulbe subgroup Daourawa and specialized in remote pasture Fulani subgroups Bornanko'en, Dabanko'en and Katchinanko'en.