Tengréla (also spelled Tingréla) is a town in the far north of

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

near the

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with

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. It is a

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and the seat of

Tengréla Department Tengréla Department (also spelled Tingréla) is a department of Bagoué Region in Savanes District, Ivory Coast. In 2021, its population was 141,761 and its seat is the settlement of Tengréla. The sub-prefectures of the department are Débét ...

Bagoué Region Bagoué Region is one of the 31 regions of Ivory Coast. Since its establishment in 2011, it has been one of three regions in Savanes District. The seat of the region is Boundiali and the region's population in the 2021 census was 515,890. Bagoué ...

Savanes District Savanes District (french: District des Savanes) is one of fourteen administrative districts of Ivory Coast. The district is located in the northernmost part of the country. The capital of the district is Korhogo. Creation Savanes District was ...

. Tengréla is also a

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. The French explorer

René Caillié Auguste René Caillié (; 19 November 1799 – 17 May 1838) was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdere ...

stopped at the settlement of Tengréla, which was then a large walled village, in January 1828 on his journey to

Timbuktu Timbuktu ( ; french: Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: ); tmh, label=Tuareg, script=Tfng, ⵜⵏⴱⴾⵜ, Tin Buqt a city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. The town is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrativ ...

. He was travelling with a

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of 500 to 600 people and 80 donkeys transporting

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s. In his book ''Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo'' published in 1830, he spelled the name of the village as "Tangrera". The ''Mosquée de Tengréla'', a small adobe mosque in the city possibly dating from the 17th century, was inscribed on the

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in 2021 along with other mosques in the region for its outstanding representation of

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. In 2021, the population of the sub-prefecture of Tengréla was 92,454.

Villages

The 28 villages of the sub-prefecture of Tengréla and their population in 2014 are:

Notes

References

* *. Sub-prefectures of Bagoué Communes of Bagoué {{SavanesCI-geo-stub