At
the end of the nineteenth century Sia consisted of two large villages, Tunuma
and Sia proper, located at a few hundred meters from each other on a narrow
spit of land bounded by 8 to 10 feet deep ravines on either side, carved by the
We (Houët) river to the east and by its tributary Sanyo to the west, and three
small satellite villages lying beyond this natural border. There were a number
of other independent villages in the surroundings (Bindogoso, Dogona, Kwirima,
Kpa) which all now lie within
