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| | The Annotated Ramsar List: Mali |
 | | Mali presently has 1 site designated as a Wetland of International Importance, with a surface area of 4,119,500 hectares. |
 | | Nearly one million people live on the resources of the delta ecosystems, by agriculture, farming, fishing, crop, navigation, tourism, etc. The Inner Niger Delta is the source of the emergence of the big empires of the 8th to 16th centuries (Ghana, Mali, Songhoy), then of the theocratic States of Sékou, Ahmadou and Elhadj Omar Tall. |
 | | Numerous historic cities like Hamdallayi (ancient capital of the Dina), Djenné, Dia and Bandiagara are important economic, political and cultural centers today. |
| www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_mali.htm (430 words) |
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