Douroula
Douroula is a town in Burkina Faso. It is the county seat of Douroula Department in the province Mouhoun. Near the town are ruins of a smelting furnace and evidence of ferrous metallurgy dating back to the 8th century BC.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 3,310 residents
- Description: town in Burkina Faso in the province Mouhoun
- Also known as: “Durula”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirikongo.
Kirikongo
Village
Kirikongo is an archaeological site located in the Mouhoun Bend region of Burkina Faso. The importance of Kirikongo and investigations of other sites in the Mouhoun River drainage system is that the system remains relatively unexplored and was inhabited by the ancestors of the Bwa. Kirikongo is situated 8 km southwest of Douroula.
Douroula
- Categories: municipality, village of Burkina Faso, and locality
- Location: Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.5852° or 12° 35′ 7″ northLongitude
-3.30025° or 3° 18′ 1″ westPopulation
3,310Elevation
273 metres (896 feet)Open location code
7C4RHMPX+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 902905511OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2360973Wikidata ID
Q2718415
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Douroula” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Douroula”
- Chinese: “Douroula”
- Chinese: “杜魯拉”
- Chinese: “杜鲁拉”
- Dutch: “Douroula”
- Esperanto: “Douroula”
- Fanti: “Douroula”
- French: “Douroula”
- German: “Douroula”
- Hebrew: “דורולה”
- Italian: “Douroula”
- Japanese: “ドゥルラ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Douroula”
- Mossi: “Douroula”
- Polish: “Douroula”
- Portuguese: “Douroula”
- Turkish: “Douroula”
- Vietnamese: “Douroula (thị trấn)”
- Vietnamese: “Douroula”
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