Sangha | |
Settlement Type: | Commune |
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: | Mopti Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Cercle |
Subdivision Name2: | Bandiagara Cercle |
Population As Of: | 2009 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 32513 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Coordinates: | 14.465°N -3.3061°W |
Sangha (sometimes spelled Sanga) is a rural commune in the Cercle of Bandigara in the Mopti Region of Mali. The commune contains around 44 small villages and in the 2009 census had a population of 32,513. The administrative centre (chef-lieu) is the village of Sangha Ogol Leye, one of a cluster of at least 10 small villages at the top of the Bandiagara Escarpment.
The commune is known as a centre for Dogon traditional religion with many temples and shrines, and as a base for visitors to the local Dogon villages. Toro So is spoken in the village of Sangha.[2] Most of the ethnographic work by Marcel Griaule was carried out among the Dogon of Sangha.