TIVAOUANE

town, northwestern Senegal. It is located about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dakar, the national capital. Senegal's principal mineral exports (aluminum and especially calcium phosphates) are quarried near Tivaouane. The town is linked by road and rail with the ports of Dakar and Saint-Louis and serves as the country's main centre for the Sufi-Muslim Tijaniyah sect. The Wolof people constitute the town's main inhabitants. Pop. (1976) 18,529.