Balé is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso , located in its Boucle du Mouhoun Region with Boromo as capital. Its area is 4,596 km (1,775 sq mi), and had a population of 297,367 in 2019. The province is known for its Deux Balé Forest , populated by savannah elephant herds. Boromo , the provincial capital, is located on the main road from Ouagadougou to Bobo-Dioulasso . In June 2007, the Canadian mining company, Semafo , open the third gold mine in the country in Mana in the province, with an investment of about $ 116 million.
10-398: On November 15, 2008 a bus accident killed 69 people at Boromo. When a passenger bus transporting workers to Côte d'Ivoire collided with a commercial truck. Both vehicles burst into flames. The province is known for its Deux Balé Forest , populated by savannah elephant herds. Boromo , the provincial capital, is located on the main road from Ouagadougou to Bobo-Dioulasso , and serves as
20-483: A carpet of grasses, and trees such as Anogeissus leiocarpus , Isoberlinia doka and Terminalia laxiflora. There is gallery forest on the riverbanks. Mammals include hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius, buffalo Syncerus caffer, elephant Loxodonta africana, antelopes and for the reptiles the crocodile Crocodylus sp., although the diversity of fauna has been reported as being reduced. In Antelopes: Global Survey And Regional Action Plans (1990), Rod East stated
30-566: A gateway to the park. Most people in the province live in rural areas; 277,165 live in the countryside with only 20,202 people residing in urban areas. There are 147,993 men living in Balé Province and 149,374 women. Bale is divided into 10 departments : In June 2007, the Canadian mining company, Semafo , open the third gold mine in the country in Mana, with an investment of about $ 116 million. There
40-598: Is a national park located in central eastern Burkina Faso . It is within Mouhoun Province just west of the Black Volta River and at an elevation of 235-310m. Deux Balés National Park was established in 1937 as the forêts classées des Deux Balés ('the Deux Balés Classified Forests') with an area of 610 square kilometres. At that time, it was part of French West Africa . In 1967, while part of
50-556: Is a hydroelectric station at Boromo, operated by the Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso (SONABEL) with 1,269 MWh. In 2011 the province had 164 primary schools and 22 secondary schools. In 2011 the province had 31 health and social promotion centers ( Centres de santé et de promotion sociale ), 4 doctors and 115 nurses. 11°42′N 3°10′W / 11.700°N 3.167°W / 11.700; -3.167 Deux Bal%C3%A9 Forest Deux Balés National Park
60-680: The Deux Balés. Black Volta River The Black Volta or Mouhoun is a river that flows through Burkina Faso for approximately 1,352 km (840 mi) to the White Volta in Dagbon , Ghana , the upper end of Lake Volta. The source of the Black Volta is in the Cascades Region of Burkina Faso, close to Mount Tenakourou , the highest point of the country. Further downstream it forms part of
70-645: The border between Ghana and Burkina Faso, and later between Ivory Coast and Ghana. Within Ghana, it marks the border between the Savannah and Bono regions. The Bui Dam , a hydroelectric power plant, is built on the river, just south of the Bui National Park , which the river bisects. This article related to a river in Burkina Faso is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
80-604: The integrity of its elephant populations". By 2001, Burkina Faso was sheltering the largest number of elephants in West Africa, and Deux Balés (together with Baporo Forest ) was home to roughly 400 of them. The National Park is part of an undulating granitic plain , with outcrops of rock and lateritic plateaux . It lies at an altitude of 235 to 310 metres. The Park has been called "an area of about 200,000 acres (810 km ) of bushland and aging baobab trees". The vegetation comprises Sudano-Zambezian savanna with
90-625: The newly independent Republic of Upper Volta , the area was given the name of a National Park and referred to as 'parc national des Deux Balés'. However, there is still no law establishing it as a national park. Poaching occurs in the park, and in 1968 there was considerable reduction of large mammal populations by the 'Service de l'Elevage'. In 1989, the International Union for Conservation of Nature recommended that "The legal status of Deux Balés National Park should be reviewed, in light of agricultural and mining activities which conflict with
100-428: The view that the long-term survival of Burkina Faso's antelope populations would depend on developing rational wildlife utilization schemes in areas such as Deux Balés, recognizing the importance of bushmeat, and that giving legal protection to the antelope there would achieve little without other improvements in management. Some 100 kilometres of forests along of the banks of the Black Volta River are protected within
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