Saraya

Saraya lies on a granite massif whose streams feed the Falémé, in the gold country of Bambouk. The surrounding land was known as Dantila, remembered as a province of the Mali Empire and as the domain of the Danfakha chiefs. Local tradition tells that their ancestor was a great hunter who rid the country of a destructive buffalo. Gold from the wider Bambouk region traveled north across the Sahara and made its name known far beyond the river valleys where it was obtained.