Yeumbeul

Yeumbeul (or Yombol ) is a city of the Senegal, located at a score of kilometers of Dakar, with the entry of the Presqu'île of Cape Verde.

History

Yeumbeul developed starting from a village of peasants stockbreeders, in a rather anarchistic way in the Années 1960, with the Rural migration - in particular related to the drynesses - come to enlarge the rows of new a urban Prolétariat.

Administration

Yeumbeul is in the Département of Pikine (area of Dakar).

The city includes/understands two communes of district, Northern Yeumbeul and Southern Yeumbeul.

Geography

The closest localities are Nimzat, Bene Barak, Boun, Thiaroye - Station and Thiaroye Kao.

Geological physics

Population

At the time of the census of 2002, Southern YeumbeulNord and Yeumbeul respectively counted 104.199 and 80.439 people. End 2007, according to the official forecasts, these figures would amount to 118.462 and 91.449.

The first inhabitants were Lébous, but the new inhabitants are rather Wolofs or Toucouleurs.

Economic activities

Yeumbeul is a rather underprivileged zone of the outer suburbs of Dakar.

Personalities born in Yeumbeul

See too

Internal bonds

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