Hombori is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Douentza in the Mopti Region of Mali.

The town lies just to the north of the Hombori Tondo mesa on the R15 highway linking Mopti and Gao.

After the invasion of the Moroccan Saadi dynasty in 1591, one part of the royal family of Gao established themselves in Hombori.

Those local villages deeper in the hills (for example Tabi, 30 km away) were never conquered or directly colonised, and retain their traditional cultures.

The Songhai leadership were largely coopted by the French Colonial administration upon their arrival around 1900, while much of the Dogon community fled to nearby mountains, a process that had earlier begun to escape Moorish slave raids.