Nioro du Sahel
Commune and town in Nioro Region, Mali
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Nioro du Sahel (often referred to as simply Nioro) is a town and urban commune in the Nioro Region of western Mali, 241 km from the city of Kayes. It is located 443 kilometres or 275 miles (by road) north-west of the Malian capital Bamako. As of 2023, the commune had a population of 109,565.[1]
Nioro du Sahel | |
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Commune and town | |
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  Nioro du Sahel Location in Mali | |
| Coordinates: 15°11′N 9°33′W | |
| Country |  Mali |
| Region | Nioro Region |
| Cercle | Nioro du Sahel Cercle |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Abbas Sylla |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 109,565 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Founded in circa 1240 by a Diawando slave named Beydari Tamboura,[2] Nioro attained its greatest height in the eighteenth century as the then-capital of the Bambara kingdom of Kaarta. The town became an important trading center between Upper Senegal and the Sudan.
In the early 1850s, the Toucouleur conqueror El Hadj Umar Tall invaded Kaarta, forcing the kingdom's conversion to Islam; he built a great mosque in Nioro in 1854. Umar Tall's son Ahmadu Tall took refuge in Nioro after the fall of his capital Segou to the French in 1890. His army, led by the Wolof king-in-exile Alboury Ndiaye, failed to defend the city against the advancing colonial army in January 1891.[3]
The town has an airstrip at Nioro Airport.
Climate
| Climate data for Nioro (1961–1990) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.4 (88.5) |
34.7 (94.5) |
37.5 (99.5) |
40.0 (104.0) |
41.3 (106.3) |
39.4 (102.9) |
34.8 (94.6) |
32.9 (91.2) |
34.5 (94.1) |
37.3 (99.1) |
35.7 (96.3) |
31.6 (88.9) |
35.9 (96.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 22.7 (72.9) |
25.2 (77.4) |
28.2 (82.8) |
31.4 (88.5) |
34.0 (93.2) |
33.1 (91.6) |
29.5 (85.1) |
27.9 (82.2) |
28.8 (83.8) |
29.7 (85.5) |
26.7 (80.1) |
22.9 (73.2) |
28.3 (82.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 13.5 (56.3) |
16.1 (61.0) |
19.1 (66.4) |
23.6 (74.5) |
27.2 (81.0) |
27.0 (80.6) |
24.6 (76.3) |
23.6 (74.5) |
23.6 (74.5) |
22.6 (72.7) |
18.2 (64.8) |
14.2 (57.6) |
21.2 (70.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.5 (0.02) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
2.5 (0.10) |
7.1 (0.28) |
46.4 (1.83) |
132.8 (5.23) |
148.9 (5.86) |
92.0 (3.62) |
26.0 (1.02) |
1.0 (0.04) |
0.8 (0.03) |
458 (18.03) |
| Average rainy days | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 5.1 | 11.4 | 10.2 | 9.1 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 42.1 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 259.4 | 246.0 | 275.3 | 267.5 | 263.7 | 251.4 | 247.8 | 245.1 | 247.8 | 260.4 | 255.0 | 244.6 | 3,064 |
| Source: NOAA[4] | |||||||||||||
