Tabalak

Region

Tabalak is a rural municipality in the department of Abalak in Niger.

Geography

Tabalak located in the northern Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Kao in the northwest, Akoubounou in the northeast, Keita in the south and Kalfou in the southwest. The municipality is divided into nine administrative villages, eleven traditional villages, eleven hamlets, a warehouse and a water source.

The main town of the country church is the administrative village Tabalak. It is located on a small lake, the Mare de Tabalak. The wetlands of the mare de Tabalak in 2005 declared a Ramsar site, which comprises 7713 acres.

History

Tabalak was originally a small Tuareg village, which attracted many immigrants during the droughts in the 1970s. The mid-1970s grew the economic importance of the operated on the mare de Tabalak and other small lakes fishery that was previously operated by only a few immigrant Nigerians and Nigerians from the Niger River. The fishing supplemented the cattle, a traditional domain of the Tuareg, and practiced mainly of Hausa agriculture. 1974, a weekly market in Tabalak was founded. The nationally important commercial fish was accompanied by increasing urbanization Tabalaks. In 2002, the independent rural community Tabalak was created as part of a nationwide administrative reform in a previously unincorporated area.

Population

At the 2001 census Tabalak had 12,999 inhabitants. For the year 2010 17.475 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

Tabalak is located on the National Road 25, which connects the village to the regional capitals in Agadez and Tahoua.