Yélimané Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the
Kayes Region of
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mal ...
. Its administrative centre (''
chef-lieu
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
'') is the town of
Yélimané. In the 2009 census the population of the cercle was 178,442.
Yélimané Cercle is a major center of
gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile me ...
mining.
The
''cercle'' is subdivided into 12
''communes'':
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Diafounou Diongaga
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Diafounou Gory
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Fanga
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Gory
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Guidimé
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Kirané Kaniaga
Kirané Kaniaga is ''commune'' in the Cercle of Yélimané in the Kayes Region of south-western Mali. The administrative centre (''chef-lieu
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town ...
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Konsiga
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Kremis
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Marekaffo
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Soumpou
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Toya
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Tringa
''Tringa'' is a genus of waders, containing the shanks and tattlers. The genus name ''Tringa'' is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1599. They are mainly freshwater birds, often with ...
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Cercles of Mali