Key facts
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Capital
- Banfora
- Region
- 7,117 sq mi (18,434 km )
- Density
- 114.10/sq mi (44.052/km )
- Urban
- 157,808
- Time zone
- UTC+0 (GMT 0)
- Hdi 2017
- 0.432 , low · 3rd
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Encyclopedic overview
Cascades ([kas.kad], "waterfalls") is one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions. It was created on 2 July 2001. The population of Cascades was 812,062 in 2019. It is the second least populous region in Burkina Faso and contains 3.96% of all Burkinabé. The region's capital is Banfora. Two provinces, Comoé and Léraba, make up the region. The Cascades de Karfiguéla give the region its name.
As of 2019, the population of the region was 812,062. As of 2007, the literacy rate in the region was 20%, compared to a national average of 28.3%. The coverage of cereal need compared to the total production of the region was 117%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tannounyan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.