Gossas Department is one of the departments of Senegal, located in the Fatick Region on the west coast.
Administrative divisions[edit]
Within the department lies one commune, the town of Gossas.
The rural districts (communautés rurales) comprise:
- Arrondissement of Colobane:
- Colobane
- Mbar
- Arrondissement of Ouadiour:
- Ndiène Lagane
- Ouadiour
- Patar Lia
Historic sites
- Gossas commune
- Mausoleum of Serigne Khar Kane
- Mausoleum of Ndamal Gossas (Oumar Guèye)
- Gossas département
- Site of Battle of Danki
- Wells of Ndiéné
- Bivouac of El Hadj Umar Tall (Badakhoune)
- Fetishist trees of Gagnick Godjil
- Gouye Ndiouly baobab tree at Kahone, near Kaolack
- Island of Kouyong Keïta, opposite Kahone
- Backwaters of Ngaby and Wagui (Badakhoune)