Lâ-Todin Department
La - Todin (also La La Todin or deaths ) is a department and at the same time a the same area comprehensive community ( commune Rurale ) in the West African Republic of Burkina Faso. La - Todin is located about 130 kilometers northwest of the Burkinabe capital, Ouagadougou.
Population
In the census of March 1998, approximately 7,000 residents in the town and 25,000 have been counted in the department of La - Todin. In recent years the population has grown but strong, official estimates of around 9,000 residents of the capital in the year 2005.
This strong population growth in recent years is due in particular to the return of workers who worked for years on plantations in the Ivory Coast and had to flee after the outbreak of the turmoil of war in the Ivory Coast in September 2002.
La - Todin is inhabited by Mossi, but also members of other ethnic groups such as the Fulani have settled in La - Todin and its surroundings. The population is religiously very heterogeneous, there are both Catholic and Protestant churches as well as mosques in La- Todin.
Economy
The majority of the population lives on subsistence agriculture, as a staple millet is grown mostly. In La - Todin there are several petrol - or diesel-powered flour mills, the millet for daily needs but mostly hand ground, or mashed in traditional mortars. Other agricultural products are corn, shea and some meat, but increasingly also cotton, which is not produced in contrast to other agricultural products to meet their own needs, but for sale.
In the center of La - Todins you find a kiosk, a grocer, a street café and a small restaurant. Goods for daily needs and food are available on the twice weekly market.
Infrastructure
As capital of the department of La - Todin has a prefecture, a first aid station, a small maternity clinic and a police post. For a long time there was no running water or electricity. The health facilities, police station, the Prefecture and the village square have since the mid- 90s via an electric lighting, which is powered by powered by solar batteries. In October 2012 La Todin was connected to the central power grid of Burkina Faso.
Caused by weak rain in the 1990s, the water table is lowered in the region around La - Todin distinctive. In order to defuse the threat of water scarcity in the late 1990s a small reservoir was created, bringing the supply of water is assured today. Thanks to numerous pump is clean drinking water in most neighborhoods La - Todins available when foot marches of up to twenty minutes to present to the pump for many residents La - Todins still a daily reality.
Management
Prior to 2006, La - Todin was managed directly by the prefect of the department of La - Todin. Since the municipal elections of 22 July 2006 as La - Todin its own authorities, consisting of 33 councilors and a mayor. 24 councilors are members of the ruling in Burkina Faso Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP ), the eight Reveil Démocratique of measure ( RDM) and the socialist / sankaristischen UNIR / MS.
Training centers
In La - Todin there are schools for all ages, including a children's garden with a maximum capacity of 90 children, as well as a gymnasium. The enrollment rate is around 50%.
Traffic
La - Todin is the well-maintained national road N2 to Yako, the provincial capital of the province Passoré, accessible. From Yako from it will be only 24 km on the highway R21 ( bush track, open year-round ) in a westerly direction. Daily buses and smaller bush taxis directly from Ouagadougou to La - Todin (especially " La Todin Air " and "Air Passoré ", but also larger bus companies now make a stop in La - Todin ).
Swell
Arbole | bagare | Bokin | Gomponsom | Kirsi | La - Todin | Pilimpikou | Samba | Yako
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- Location in Burkina Faso
- North ( Burkina Faso)
- Place in Africa