Barouéli is a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 and commune

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...

 and seat of the Cercle of Barouéli

Barouéli Cercle

Barouéli Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Ségou Region of Mali. The administrative center is the town of Barouéli.The Cercle is divided into 11 communes:*Barouéli*Boidié*Dougoufié*Gouendo*Kalaké*Konobougou*N'Gassola...

 in the Ségou Region

Ségou Region

Ségou is the fourth most populous administrative region in Mali, whose capital is the town of Ségou.-Geography:Situated at the center of Mali, Ségou Region covers 64,947 km²...

 of southern-central 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...

. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 32,739.

Situation

Barouéli is directly south of Ségou Cercle, and directly north of Koulikoro

Koulikoro

Koulikoro is a city in Mali. The capital of the Koulikoro Region, Koulikoro is located on banks of the Niger River, from Mali's capital Bamako....

 Cercle.

The Commune

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...

 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

Cercles of Mali

A cercle is the second 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....

 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

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 area's population is overwhelmingly Bambara.

The town's football

Football (soccer)

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 club AS Bakaridjan de Barouéli, plays in the top level Malien Premiere Division

Malien Première Division

Malian Première Division is the top division of football in Mali. Having been created in 1966, it is governed by the Fédération Malienne de Football. The league has been professional since 2004....

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Environmental resources

It contains the forests of Barouéli, Tamani, and Boidié, which have come under pressure from overexploitation

Overexploitation

Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns. Sustained overexploitation can lead to the destruction of the resource...

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External links

• Malaria transmission 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 the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID),