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'''Zangasso''' (also '''Sangasso''') is a small town and [[Communes of Mali|commune]] in the [[Koutiala Cercle|Cercle of Koutiala]] in the [[Sikasso Region]] of southern [[Mali]]. The commune covers an area of 452 square kilometers and includes 10 settlements.<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 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005558/http://www.matcl.gov.ml/pdf/ComRegSikasso.pdf | archive-date=3 December 2013 | url-status=live }}.</ref> In the 2009 census it had a population of 19,925.<ref name=pop2009/> The small town of Zangasso (or Sangasso), the administrative centre (''[[chef-lieu]]'') of the commune, is 30 km southwest of [[Koutiala]] on the Route Nationale 11 that links Koutiala with [[Sikasso]].

The French explorer [[René Caillié]] stopped at Zangasso on 12 February 1828 on his journey to [[Timbuktu]]. He was travelling with a [[Caravan (travellers)|caravan]] transporting [[kola nut]]s to [[Djenné]]. In his book ''Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo'' published in 1830, he spelled the name of the village as Sanasso.{{sfn|Viguier|2008|pp=54-55}} He wrote:
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As we advanced the soil became sandy and well cultivated. The country was generally open, yet there were some cés and nédés ''rhamnus lotus'' and ''nauclea''. We met a numerous caravan from Jenné, laden with salt. This caravan was composed of about two hundred men, sixty women, and twenty five asses. About nine o'clock in the morning we halted at Sanasso. From Toumaré to Jenné, wood is so scarce that the greater part of the inhabitants burn millet stubble. Sanasso is shaded by bombaces and baobabs. Like all Bambara villages in this region, it is built of bricks baked in the sun. The houses have only a ground floor: they are very dirty, and surrounded with walls.{{sfn|Caillié|1830|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gPMTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA420 420]}}{{efn|Toumaré is the name used by Caillé for the modern village of [[Doumanaba]].{{sfn|Viguier|2008|p=48}}}}
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Caillié recorded details of many of the plants.<ref>{{cite journal | last= Jacques-Félix | first=Henri | year=1963 | title= Contribution de René Caillié à l'ethnobotanique africaine au cours de ses voyages en Mauritanie et à Tombouctou: 1819-1828 | journal= Journal d'Agriculture Tropicale et de Botanique Appliquée | volume=10 | issue=8-9, 10-11 | pages=287–334, 449–520 | doi=10.3406/jatba.1963.2717 | ref=none }} The article was also published by the journal as a monograph.</ref> The "cés" are shea trees ''[[Vitellaria paradoxa]]'' (formerly ''Butyrospermum parkii'') from which [[shea butter]] is made. "Nédé" is ''[[Parkia biglobosa]]''.{{sfn|Viguier|2008|p=31}} ''Rhamnus lotus'' is a synonym for ''[[Ziziphus lotus]]'', and his ''nauclea'' were probably ''[[Mitragyna|Mitragyna inermis]]''.{{sfn|Toute|2005|p=29}}

==Notes==
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==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 }}.
*{{cite book| last=Toute | first= René | year=2005 | title= Histoire de la Recherche Agricole en Afrique Tropicale Francophone. Volume III: Explorateurs et marchands à la recherche de l'Eldorado africain 1800–1885/1890 | publisher=Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)| place=Rome | isbn= 92-5-205407-3 | url= http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/an497f/an497f00.pdf | pages=18–33 }}

==External links==
*{{citation | title=Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Zangasso 2006-2008 | publisher=Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali | year=2006 | url= http://fsg.afre.msu.edu/mali_fd_strtgy/plans/sikasso/koutiala/psa_zangasso.pdf | language=French | ref=none }}.

{{Communes of the Sikasso Region}}

[[Category:Communes of Sikasso Region]]

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