Kabrousse | |
Other Name: | Cabrousse |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Senegal |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Senegal |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Ziguinchor |
Subdivision Type2: | Department |
Subdivision Name2: | Oussouye |
Elevation M: | 13 |
Population Total: | 1352 |
Coordinates: | 12.3556°N -16.7206°W |
Kabrousse (also spelled Cabrousse) is a village in the rural community of Diembéring, Oussouye, Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal. It is a coastal village located a few kilometers south of Cap Skirring. In a straight line, it is the closest place in Africa to South America (2,841 km from Touros, Rio Grande do Norte in northeastern Brazil). About 2 km southeast of Kabrousse is the international border with Guinea-Bissau.
Aline Sitoe Diatta, the leader of a resistance movement against French West Africa, was born in Nialou in 1920.