Kanan-Bakache

Region

Kanan - Bakaché (also: Kanambakaché ) is a rural municipality in the Department Mayahi in Niger.

Geography

Kanan - Bakaché lies in the Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Issawane in the north, and Maïjirgui Tessaoua to the southeast, the southwest and Aguie Mayahi in the West. By Kanan - Bakaché Wadi Goulbi N'Kaba runs. The municipality is divided into 44 administrative villages, a traditional village, 33 hamlets, two bearings and four water points. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Kanan - Bakaché (also: Kanambakaché ).

History

Before the arrival of the French at the turn of the 19th to 20th century Kanan - Bakaché part of the independent state of Katsina. The rural community of Kanan - Bakaché went out in 2002 at a nationwide administrative reform from the canton of Kanan - Bakaché, from which the rural communities of El Allassane Maïreyrey, Issawane and Tchaké were removed in the course. When the floods in West and Central Africa 2010 250 inhabitants of Kanan - Bakaché were classified as disaster victims.

Population

At the 2001 census, Kanan - Bakaché had 62 956 inhabitants. For the year 2010 85.045 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is located in a zone is operated in the rain-fed agriculture.