Sangha, Mali

Sangha
Commune
Sangha Location in Mali
Coordinates: 14°27′54″N 3°18′22″W / 14.46500°N 3.30611°WCoordinates: 14°27′54″N 3°18′22″W / 14.46500°N 3.30611°W
Country	Mali
Region	Mopti Region
Cercle	Bandiagara Cercle
Population (2009 census)[1]
• Total	32,513
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)

Sangha (sometimes spelled Sanga) is a rural commune in the Cercle of Bandigara in the Mopti Region of Mali. The commune contains around 44 small villages and in the 2009 census had a population of 32,513. The administrative centre (chef-lieu) is the village of Sangha Ogol Leye, one of a cluster of small villages at the top of the Bandiagara Escarpment.

The commune is known as a centre for traditional religion with many temples and shrines, and as a base for visitors to the local Dogon villages. Most of the ethnographic work by Marcel Griaule was carried out among the Dogon of Sangha.

References

1. Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Mopti) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique.

External links

• Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Sangha 2006-2010 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006.
• Map of Mopti and Dogon country, ND 30-6, 1:250,000, University of Texas, US Army, 1954.