- Barouéli
Barouéli (var. Baraouéli) is a town and Cercle (district) in the
Ségou region of centralMali . Barouéli is directly south of Ségou Cercle, and directly north ofKoulikoro Cercle.ituation
The Commune of Barouéli is composed of the town of Barouéli and forty surrounding villages, with an estimated population of 47000 in 2001 (15000 in Barouéli town proper).
The Cercle of Barouéli contains the Communes of Barouéli, Boidié, Dougoufié, Guendo, Kalabé, Konobougou, N’Gassola, Sanando, Somo, Tamani and Tesserla.
Culture
Once located in the center of the
Bambara Empire , the area's population is overwhelminglyBambara .The town's football club
AS Bakaridjan de Barouéli , plays in the top levelMalien Premiere Division .Environmental resources
It contains the forests of Barouéli, Tamani, and Boidié, which have come under pressure from overexploitation.
References
*Portions of this article were translated from the French language Wikipedia article Barouéli.
External links
* [http://gis.cancer.gov/new/mali.html Malaria transmision studies in the rural towns of Kemena and Sougoula, Barouéli] .
University of Mali , Bamako and the United States Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at theNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID),
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
