Saré Diouldé

Saré Diouldé lies on the dry eastern margins of the Ferlo, where seasonal rains bring water to shallow depressions and grass to the grazing country. Fulbe pastoralists move their cattle through this part of the western Sahel. In the early sixteenth century the Fulbe leader Koli Tengella passed through the Ferlo while gathering forces on his way towards Futa Toro, where he established the Denianke dynasty. His movements linked the pastoral interior with the kingdoms of the Senegal valley.