Vakaga

Vakaga is a prefecture in the north-eastern Central African Republic, with its capital Birao. The prefecture is sparsely populated, in 2003 a total of 52 255 inhabitants were recorded at a census. The only known commodity in the province are diamonds.

Since mid-2006, it came in Vakaga fighting between rebels and government forces, in which a large number of population was expelled.

Geography

The prefecture is located in the north of the country, bordered to the north-west to Chad in the north- east by Sudan, on the southeast by the prefecture of Haute- Kotto and on the southwest by the prefecture Bamingui - Bangoran.

All the rivers, which originate in the prefecture, open into the Bahr Aouk belonging to the Chari river system in the Chad Basin.

The highest mountain is the province's 1,330 -meter-high Mont Toussoro Bongo Massif. In the southeast stand 5,900 km ², the province protected by the National Park established in 1960 André- Félix and its buffer zone, the Yata - Ngaya nature reserve. In the west of the province are the nature reserves Réserve de faune de l' Aouk - Aoukalé and Réserve de faune de l' Ouandjia - Vakaga, which include a total of 8251 km ² and belong to the National Park complex Manovo - Gounda Saint Floris.

The flora and fauna is very rich and is determined by the type of vegetation in the north of the Eastern Sudan savanna and in the south of the Northern Congo forest savannah.

Swell

• Data of the Central African Republic to Africa at a glance
• Situation in Vakaga at MSF

Prefectures: Bamingui - Bangoran | Basse- Kotto | Haute- Kotto | Skin Mbomou | Kémo | Lobaye | Mambéré - Kadéï | Mbomou | Nana Mambéré | Ombella - Mpoko | Ouaka | Ouham | Ouham - Pendé | Vakaga

Economic prefectures: Nana Grébizi | Sangha Mbaéré | Autonomous City: Bangui

• Prefecture (Central African Republic)