Boky Wéré

Commune and village in Ségou Region, Mali

14°0′38″N 5°36′12″W / 14.01056°N 5.60333°W / 14.01056; -5.60333Country

MaliRegionSégou RegionCercleMacina CercleArea

^[1]

• Total220 km² (80 sq mi)Population

(2009 census)^[2]

• Total16,934 • Density77/km² (200/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)

Boky Wéré is a village and rural commune in the Cercle of Macina in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. The commune covers an area of approximately 220 square kilometers and includes 14 villages.^[3] The commune is bordered to the north by the commune of Monimpébougou, to the east by the commune of Kokry, to the west by the commune of Pogo and to the south by the commune of Kolongo. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 16,934.^[2] The village lies to the north of the Fala de Boky-Wéré, an ancient riverbed that forms part of the Office du Niger irrigation system, and to the south of a large irrigation canal dug in 2009 as part of the Libyan financed Malibya project.

References

^ Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, archived from the original on 2012-12-14. commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
^ ^a ^b Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Ségou) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22.
^ Communes de la Région de Ségou (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09.

External links

Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Boky Wéré 2007-2011 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2007, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-17, retrieved 2012-08-29.

Communes and towns of Ségou Region, Mali

Capital: Ségou

Bla Cercle