Badume
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Coordinates: 13 ° 24 ′ N , 15 ° 23 ′ W |
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| Region: | Lower River | |
| District: | Jarra Central | |
| Residents: | 453 (2013)
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Badume (spelling variant: Badume Koto , Baduma Kuta ; name variant: Darufatya ) is a town in the West African state of Gambia .
According to a calculation for 2013, around 453 inhabitants live there, the result of the last published census from 1993 was 421.
geography
Badume is located in the Lower River Region in the Jarra Central district on the southern bank of the Gambia River . The place is from the South Bank Road , an important highway from Gambia, about 1.4 kilometers to the north.
Culture and sights
Several places of worship are known near Badume :
- Sampati Kolong : holy well
- Tomb of Buka Sonko : sacred and religious tomb
- Seyam Konko : holy hill
- Tambang Ngali : historical tree
- Mabaliba : sacred and religious tree
- Misiri Taba : sacred tree
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Badume on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)
- ↑ Allen Meagher (ed.): Historic sites of The Gambia. Ada Dinkiralu (Mandinka), Bereb-I-Chosan (Wolof), Tarica Tawal (Fula), Nannin (Jola), Soninke Ada (Serehuli), I-Mofan Chosan (Serer). An official guide to the monuments and sites of The Gambia. National Council for the Arts and Culture, Banjul The Gambia 1998, ISBN 9983-80-011-014 .