Tassara

Tassara is a village and rural commune in Niger.

Tassara rural commune lies at the junction of the Sahel and the Sahara, receiving just enough yearly rainfall to make seasonal nomadic pasturage possible. The neighboring communes are Ingall to the northeast, Abalak to the southeast, Tchintabaraden to the southwest and Tillia to the northwest. The commune is subdivided into 19 administrative villages, four hamlets, 25 encampments (nomadic villages) and 27 wells. The administrative center of is the village of Tassara, but the commune itself covers a large distance. The larger villages include Agawan, Ajmelli, Azanag, Tarassadet, and Louberat. Tassara commune forms the north of the wedge shaped Abalak Department, itself forming the east central section of the Tahoua Region. Tahoua Region comprises eight Departments, forming much of the Nigerien border with Mali, and stopping just short of the Algerian border in the north. In the 2010 census, the entire commune's population was just 24,187, up from 17,952 in 2001.