Guidimé

Guidimé is a rural commune in the Cercle of Yélimané in the Kayes Region of western Mali. The commune includes twelve villages. The administrative center is the town of Yélimané. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 44,019.
Guidimé is named after a historical dyamare. It became a canton under the French colonial regime, then a commune in the early 1990s, with the traditional elective monarchy transitioning into an elective chef de canton and then mayor of the commune.