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Kita
Kayes, Mali · Africa
About Kita
Kita sits on the route: 1 hours from Kokofata.
Kita is in Kayes, Mali, with about 76,000 people. The nearest town is Kokofata, about 53 km away.
Kita is a town and urban commune in western Mali. The town is the capital of the Kita Cercle in the Kayes Region. It lies on the eastern slope of Mount Kita (Bambara: "Kita-kulu"), known for its caves and rock paintings. Today, the town is known for its music, its annual Roman Catholic pilgrimage and its role as aRead more
processing center for the surrounding cotton- and peanut-growing region. Kita lies on the Dakar-Niger Railway and is the largest transit hub between Bamako (180 kilometres or 112 miles) and Kayes (330 kilometres or 205 miles). In the 2018 census, the urban commune had a population of 463,787.
In November 1955, Kita became a commune of average exercise. On March 2, 1966, Kita became a commune of full exercise. The town grew in the 1990s around the cotton industry, but this has since declined.
A fictionalized version of Kita features as the setting for Malian author Massa Makan Diabaté's "Kouta Trilogy" (Le lieutenant de Kouta, Le coiffeur de Kouta, and Le boucher de Kouta).
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Kita is in Kayes, Mali, about 53 km from Kokofata.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 75,598
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Mali
- Region
- Kayes
- Timezone
- Africa/Bamako
- Coordinates
- 13.0389, -9.4882
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