Banamba Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Koulikoro Region

Koulikoro Region

Koulikoro is a region in Mali. It is the second administrative area of Mali and covers an area of 90,120 km². Its capital is the city of Koulikoro.- Geography :...

 of Mali

Mali

Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

. Its seat is the town of Banamba

Banamba

Banamba is the capital of Banamba Cercle, one of the seven Cercles of the Koulikoro Region of Mali. Its estimated 2008 population is 7000. The town lies due north of the regional capital of Koulikoro, and is connected by a 40km all weather road via the town of Sirakorola, about half way between...

, which is also its largest settlement. It lies at the center east of the region.

Administration

The Banamba Cercle is divided into nine rural communes

Communes of Mali

A Commune is the third level administrative unit in Mali. Mali is divided into eight regions and one capital district . These subdivisions bear the name of their principal city. The regions are divided into 49 Cercles...

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• Banamba
  Banamba
  Banamba is the capital of Banamba Cercle, one of the seven Cercles of the Koulikoro Region of Mali. Its estimated 2008 population is 7000. The town lies due north of the regional capital of Koulikoro, and is connected by a 40km all weather road via the town of Sirakorola, about half way between...
  
   (The administrative seat and largest town)
• Ben Kadi
  Ben Kadi
  Ben Kadi is a commune in the Cercle of Banamba in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The principal town lies at Samakele. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 7606....
  
  
• Boron
  Boron, Mali
  Boron is a town and commune in the Cercle of Banamba in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 32,250....
  
  
• Duguwolowula
  Duguwolowula
  Duguwolowula is a commune in the Cercle of Banamba in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The principal town lies at Touba. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 26,374....
  
  
• Kiban
  Kiban
  Kiban is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Banamba in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 9,781....
  
  
• Madina Sacko
  Madina Sacko
  Madina Sacko is a town and commune in the Cercle of Banamba in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 28,550....
  
  
• Sebete
  Sebete
  Sebete is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Banamba in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 3185....
  
  
• Toubacoro
• Toukoroba
  Toukoroba
  Toukoroba is a rural commune and village in the Cercle of Banamba in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The commune contains 17 villages....
  
  

Communities

Banamba Cercle is home to primarily Bambara farmers, and formed part of the pre-colonial Bambara Empire

Bambara Empire

The Bamana Empire was a large pre-colonial West African state based at Ségou, now in Mali. It was ruled by the Kulubali or Coulibaly dynasty established circa 1640 by Kaladian Coulibaly also known as Fa Sine or Biton-si-u...

. The Cercle falls largely in the dryer Sahel

Sahel

The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the North and the Sudanian Savannas in the south.It stretches across the North African continent between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea....

 region, especially in its north, where the population is mostly Fula

Fula people

Fula people or Fulani or Fulbe are an ethnic group spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa...

 and Maure

Maure

A Maure, since the 11th century, is the symbol of an African head. The term has Phoenician and Greek origins; see Moors.- U Moru :The main symbol in the coat of arms in Corsica is U Moru, Corsican for "The Moor", originally a female Moor blindfolded and wearing a necklace made of beads...

pastoralists.