Dekoa

Dekoa (Dékoua) is a sub-prefecture and town in the Kémo Prefecture of the south-eastern Central African Republic.

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Place details

Locality: Dekoa
Region: Kémo
Country: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka / République centrafricaine
Population: 19,639
Timezone: Africa/Bangui

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Dekoa
Settlement.other_name: Dékoua
Settlement.settlement_type: Sub-prefecture and town
Settlement.image_map: Kemo sub-prefectures.png
Settlement.mapsize: 300px
Settlement.map_caption: Sub-prefectures of Kémo
Settlement.pushpin_map: Central African Republic
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 280
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in the Central African Republic
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Prefecture
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Kémo
Settlement.leader_title: Sub-Prefect
Settlement.leader_name: Basile Cyriac Leppa
Settlement.unit_pref: Imperial
Settlement.population_blank1_title: Ethnicities
Settlement.timezone: WAT

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Wikidata facts

Population: 12447
Elevation: 546

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Dekoa (Dékoua) is a sub-prefecture and town in the Kémo Prefecture of the south-eastern Central African Republic.

==History== thumb|left|The Catholic church at Dekoa. In the nineteenth century freebooter Rabih az-Zubayr brought Dekoa under his sway and made it a part of the Bornu Empire. In March 1899, the sultan captured and imprisoned the explorer Ferdinand de Béhagle at Dekoa. Béhagle was subsequently hanged after the French battled the sultan's troops at Kouno in October of that year.