Sanga

Sanga stands on the crest of the Bandiagara escarpment, above the village of Banani and the plains of Dogon country. Caverns in the cliff preserve traces of the Tellem, the people whom Dogon traditions remember finding there. Archaeologists have recovered Tellem pottery from caves near Sanga, while granaries and buildings occupy recesses high in the rock. Dogon communities settled along the escarpment from the fifteenth century, making villages on the plateau and below its steep face.

The later city of Mopti lies here.