Tengréla
Sign in to saveTengréla (also spelled Tingréla) is a town in the far north of Ivory Coast near the border with Mali. It is a sub-prefecture and the seat of Tengréla Department in Bagoué Region, Savanes District. Tengréla is also a commune.
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Place details
- Locality
- Tengréla
- Region
- Savanes
- Country
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Population
- 52,271
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tengréla
- Settlement.other_name
- Tingréla
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town, sub-prefecture, and commune
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ivory Coast
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ivory Coast
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Savanes
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bagoué
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Ivory Coast
- Located in
- Tengréla Department
- Population
- +92454
- Elevation
- +370
- Time zone
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Capital of
- Tengréla Department
- Shares border with
- Ouangolodougou
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Tengréla (also spelled Tingréla) is a town in the far north of Ivory Coast near the border with Mali. It is a sub-prefecture and the seat of Tengréla Department in Bagoué Region, Savanes District. Tengréla is also a commune.
== History == thumb|Dibi, a type of chimney used in Tingréla, 1892 The French explorer René Caillié stopped at the settlement of Tengréla, which was then a large walled village, in January 1828 on his journey to Timbuktu. He was travelling with a caravan of 500 to 600 people and 80 donkeys transporting kola nuts. In his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo published in 1830, he spelled the name of the village as "Tangrera".