The Saint-Louis Region of Senegal

Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

 is on the border with Mauritania

Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

. Its capital is Saint-Louis

Saint-Louis, Senegal

Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof, is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 km north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially estimated at 176,000 in 2005. Saint-Louis...

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Famous for its cast iron

Cast iron

Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...

 bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

, built by French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 colonialists in the 19th century, it is close to the Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary

Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary

The Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary lies on the southeast bank of the River Senegal in Senegal, in northern Biffeche, north east of St-Louis. It provides a range of wetland habitats which prove very popular with migrating birds, many of which have just crossed the Sahara. Of almost 400 species of...

, home to thousands of birds, some indigenous to the area.

Departments

Saint-Louis region is divided into 3 departments:

• Dagana
  Dagana Department, Senegal
  Dagana is one of the departments of Senegal, located in the Saint-Louis Region. The capital is Dagana....
  
  
• Podor
  Podor Department
  ' is one of the departments of Senegal, located in the Saint-Louis Region....
  
  
• Saint-Louis
  Saint-Louis Department
  ' is one of the departments of Senegal, located in the Saint-Louis Region....
  
  

Geography

Saint-Louis is traversed by the northwesterly line of equal latitude and longitude.