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'''Kouoro''' is a small town and [[Communes of Mali|rural commune]] in the [[Kléla Cercle|Cercle of Kléla]] in the [[Sikasso Region]] of southern [[Mali]]. The commune covers an area of 472 square kilometers and includes the town and five villages.<ref>{{citation|title=Communes de la Région de Sikasso |publisher=Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali |url=http://www.matcl.gov.ml/pdf/ComRegSikasso.pdf |language=French |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005558/http://www.matcl.gov.ml/pdf/ComRegSikasso.pdf |archive-date=2013-12-03 }}.</ref> In the 2023 census it had a population of 23169.<ref name=pop2023/> The town of Kouoro, the ''[[chef-lieu]]'' of the commune, is 80 km north of [[Sikasso]], just off of the RN11, the main road linking Sikasso and [[Koutiala]]. It is also about 30 km west of the border with [[Burkina Faso]].

==Villages==
*Katierla
*Koumbala
*Kouoro
*Makono
*Sokourani
*Sougoula
*Koloni

==Population history==
{{Historical populations|align = center
| 1998 (census) | 10,782
| 2009 (estimate) | 11,315
}}

==History==
The French explorer [[René Caillié]] stopped at Kouoro in February 1828 on his journey to [[Timbuktu]]. He was travelling with a caravan transporting [[kola nut]]s to [[Djenné]]. In his book ''Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo'' published in 1830, he refers to what was then a village as Couara.{{sfn|Viguier|2008|p=52}} Caillié wrote:
<blockquote>At nine o'clock in the morning we halted at Couara, a pretty village, where we found an abundance of all the necessities of life. The inhabitants grow a great deal of cotton and millet, and are supplied with water from a stream that runs E.N.E., half a mile from the village.{{sfn|Caillié|1830|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gPMTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA415 415]}}</blockquote>
What Caillié referred to as a stream was actually the [[Banifing River]], a tributary of the [[Bani River|Bani]] but in February it would have had very little water.{{sfn|Viguier|2008|p=52}}

Not long after Mali declared independence from France in 1960, an [[Solar eclipse of July 31, 1962|annular solar eclipse]] took place on 31 July 1962, some 4 km northwest was the center of the greatest eclipse that happened at 12:25 GMT and 12 N, 5.7 W and included Kouoro and lasted for {{frac|3|1|2}} minutes.<ref name="NASA">{{cite web|title=Solar eclipse of July 31, 1962|url=http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSEmap/1901-2000/1962-07-31.gif|publisher=NASA|access-date=March 21, 2017}}</ref>

In 2017 a new road bridge over the Banifing opened to replace one built in 1963 that, due to its design and age, could not handle the amount of traffic on the modern RN11.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sasuke |title=KOUORO BARRAGE :LE PONT INAUGURÉ…FIN DE CALVAIRE POUR LES USAGERS DE L’AXE SIKASSO-KOUTIALA |url=https://bamada.net/kouoro-barrage-le-pont-inaugurefin-de-calvaire-pour-les-usagers-de-laxe-sikasso-koutiala |access-date=14 March 2023 |agency=Bamada.net |date=2017-11-29}}</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book | last=Caillié | first=René | title=Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828 (Volume 1) | publisher=Colburn & Bentley |location=London | year=1830 | url= https://archive.org/details/travelsthroughc00cailgoog }}
*{{cite book| last=Viguier | first=Pierre | year=2008 | title=Sur les Traces de René Caillié: Le Mali de 1828 Revisité | publisher=Quae | place=Versailles, France | isbn=978-2-7592-0271-3 }}.

==External links==
*{{citation | title=Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Kouoro 2006-2010 | publisher=Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali | year=2006 | url=http://www.aec.msu.edu/fs2/mali_fd_strtgy/plans/sikasso/sikasso/psa_kouoro.pdf | language=French | ref=none | access-date=2012-09-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920014225/http://www.aec.msu.edu/fs2/mali_fd_strtgy/plans/sikasso/sikasso/psa_kouoro.pdf | archive-date=2012-09-20 | url-status=dead }}.

{{Communes of the Sikasso Region}}

[[Category:Communes of Sikasso Region]]

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