Guiré | |
Settlement Type: | Commune and town |
Pushpin Map: | Mali |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mali |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mali |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Koulikoro Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Cercle |
Subdivision Name2: | Nara Cercle |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 6892 |
Population As Of: | 2009 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 19879 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | GMT |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Coordinates: | 14.6417°N -6.6917°W |
Guiré is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Nara in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The commune covers an area of 6,892 square kilometers and extends to the Mauritanian border. It contains 25 villages[3] and had a population of 19,879 in the 2009 census.[2] The town of Guiré is 90 km southeast of Nara, the administrative centre (chef-lieu) of the cercle.