Diembéring | |
Other Name: | Diembering, Diembéreng, Djiwat, Guimbering, Diébéring, Diebering, Djembering |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Senegal |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Senegal |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Senegal |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Ziguinchor |
Subdivision Type2: | Department |
Subdivision Name2: | Oussouye |
Subdivision Type3: | Arrondissement |
Subdivision Name3: | Cabrousse |
Coordinates: | 12.4689°N -16.7806°W |
Diembéring (also called Diembering, Diembéreng, Djiwat, Guimbering, Diébéring, Diebering, or Djembering) is a village in Senegal in the rural community of the same name. It is located in Cabrousse, Oussouye, Ziguinchor, Casamance, approximately 10 km north of Cap Skirring and 60 km from Ziguinchor.
It is home to the Diembéring dialect of the Kwatay language.[1]
Initially, Diembéring was a fishing village. It is still so today, however tourism has opened up other possibilities.
Diembéring is the capital of the rural district (communauté rurale) of the same name. Within the district are the other villages of :
The nearest localities are Koudioundou, Nikine, Bouyouye, Cachouane, Boucotte Wolof, and Mossor.
Diembéring was built on sand dunes, among palms and towering trees of the Malvaceae family (likely Ceiba pentandra, one of many species widely called, ambiguously, 'kapok trees').
Diembéring is one of the few places where people speak Kuwaataay, a dialect of Jola.
The beaches of this coastal village are popular with tourists. There is a mosque in the area, as well as a church where a Jola mass is sung each Sunday. A maternity hospital is run by a Spanish order of nuns.