Mahina | |
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: | Kayes Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Cercle |
Subdivision Name2: | Bafoulabé Cercle |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2009 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 26754 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Coordinates: | 13.7583°N -10.8486°W |
Elevation M: | 100 |
Mahina is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Bafoulabé in the Kayes Region of south-western Mali. The commune includes 24 small villages of which the largest are Mahina, Diallola, Sékodounga and Niakalinssiraya.[2] In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 26,754.
The Dakar-Niger Railway has a station at Mahina and the railroad crosses the Bafing River over a bridge built in 1895. The bridge was repaired in 2022.[3]