| Dafor | |||||||
| Other Name: | Dafore | ||||||
| Native Name: | دافور | ||||||
| Settlement Type: | Commune and town | ||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Mauritania#Africa | ||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom | ||||||
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 | ||||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mauritania | ||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||
| Subdivision Name: |  Mauritania | ||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Region | ||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | Department | ||||||
| Leader Title: | Mayor | ||||||
| Unit Pref: | Imperial | ||||||
| Population As Of: | 2013 | ||||||
| Population Footnotes: | [1] | ||||||
| Population Total: | 15844 | ||||||
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities | ||||||
| Timezone: | GMT | ||||||
| Utc Offset: | ±00:00 | ||||||
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| Native Name Lang: | ar | ||||||
Dafor (or Dafort, Daffort, in Arabic: الدافوع) is a town and commune in Southern Mauritania, located in the Ould Yengé department of the Guidimaka Region.
The commune of Dafort is located in the region of Guidimaka, in the south of Mauritania. It is positioned to the west in the department of Ould Yengé and covers an area of 276 km2.
It is bounded to the north by the commune of Bouanze, to the east by the commune of Tektaka, to the south by the commune of Bouly, to the west by the communes of Tachott and Ouldmbouni.
Dafort was established as a commune by the order of October 20, 1987, establishing the communes of Mauritania.
Agriculture is at the center of Dafort's economy, like almost all the municipalities in the region. But this economy is fragile because it encounters obstacles to its development, in particular the climatic conditions or the lack of means of the farmers. To deal with these obstacles, the state or various NGOs finance projects that improve the living conditions of the inhabitants.
For example, a project to set up a drinking water network was launched in 2021 in the village of Lefkarine.[2]