Richard-Toll

Richard-Toll is a city of the North-West of the Senegal, near to the Mauritania.

History

In wolof, the Toponyme means " the garden of Richard" , of the name of a French botanist, Jean Michel Claude Richard, which, starting from 1816, tried to acclimatize certain European plant species to it.

The city was a colonial administrative center a long time. Between 1822 and 1827, a governor of Senegal, the baron Jacques-François Roger, was made build a true castle, lived thereafter by Louis Faidherbe, before being transformed into monastery then in school. Today in ruins, the building still testifies to the ambitions of last and constitutes one of curiosities of the place.

Administration

Richard-Toll is a commune of the Département of Dagana in the area of Saint-Louis.

Geography

Saint-Louis is to a hundred kilometers.

The closest localities are Keur Madike, Ndiangue, Ksar Chams, Keur Birane Ndiaye, Guidakar, Alarba and Ndombo.

Geological physics

Richard-Toll built himself on left bank of the Fleuve Senegal. Today it is surrounded by fields of Canne to sugar and rice plantations, in the middle of an area overall rather arid.

Population

In the Years 1970, Richard-Toll counted only 5.000 inhabitants, but the development of the sugar industry supported its rise.

At the time of the censuses of 1988 and 2002, the number of inhabitants amounted respectively to 29.611 and 42.621.

In 2007, according to the official estimates, the population would be of 48.968 people.

Economy

Relatively prosperous, the local economy rests mainly on the industry of the cane with sugar.

CS (sugar Company sénégalaise) there has an important factory of transformation, manages a few 8.200 hectares of fields of cane, employs 7.000 people and produces each year approximately 15.000 tons of refined sugar. An production unit of Bioéthanol starting from Mélasse resulting from the transformation of the cane with sugar was inaugurated there in November 2007.

In the area, thanks to the irrigation, one produces also Patate, Fonio, Maïs, Chou, mango and Banane.

The industry on its side manufactures cotton fabric, painting, chocolate, cylinder gas, cookies as well as chemicals.

Twinnings

Personalities related to Richard-Toll

In 1993, following a voyage to Senegal, Marie Laforêt composed a song whose title is Richard Toll .

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