Ingall

Also known as In-Gall, Ingal, I-n-Gall, In Gall, Inghall

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Settlement.official_name: In-Gall
Settlement.other_name: In Gall, I-n-Gall, In-Gal, Ingal, Ingall
Settlement.image_caption: View of in Gall, from the roof of a banco home.
Settlement.map_caption: Location of in Gall
Settlement.pushpin_map: Niger
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Agadez Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Department
Settlement.subdivision_name2: In-Gall Department
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Commune
Settlement.subdivision_name3: In Gall
Settlement.area_total_km2: 61171
Settlement.population_as_of: 2012-12-10
Settlement.population_total: 51903
Settlement.elevation_m: 456
Settlement.elevation_ft: 1499

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Official name: Ingall
Population: 47170
Elevation: 456
Image: Niger, In-Gall (7).jpg

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Commons category: Ingall
native label: Ingall

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Description
History
Pre-history
Central Saharan trade route
Songhay
Agadez Sultanate
French occupation
Post independence
Salt extraction
Uranium mining
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In-Gall (var. In Gall, I-n-Gall, In-Gal, Ingal, Ingall) is a department, commune and town in the Agadez Region of northeast Niger, with a year-round population of less than 500. Known for its oasis and salt flats, In-Gall is the gathering point for the Cure Salee festival of Tuareg and Wodaabe pastoralists to celebrate the end of the rainy season each September. During the festival, In-Gall's population grows to several thousand nomads, officials, and tourists. As of 2011, the commune had a total population of 47,170 people.

In-Gall had been a stop on the main roads between the capital of Niger, Niamey (600 km to the southwest), and the mining town of Arlit (200 km to the northeast, 150 km from the Algerian border) or the provincial capital Agadez (100 km to the east). In the 1970s, the main road was repaved to transport uranium from the French-owned mines in Arlit, but the new road bypassed In-Gall, ending its use as a waystation. Since then, its population has dropped from almost 5,000 to less than 500.