Batokunku

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Batokunku
Coordinates: 13 ° 20 ′  N , 16 ° 48 ′  W
Map: Gambia
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Region: West coast
District: Combo South
Residents: 512 (2013)

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Batokunku (spelling variants: Bato Kunku , Batukunku ) is a town in the West African state of Gambia .

According to a calculation for 2013, there are around 512 inhabitants, the result of the last published census from 1993 was 230.

geography

Batokunku is located in the Kombo South district in the West Coast region on the Atlantic Ocean , around 1.5 northwest of Tujereng and three kilometers south of Tanji .

The place is directly on the Coastal Road , which the Kombo-St. Mary Area connects with the southern places on the coast.

Culture

The privately operated Mama Africa Women's Museum and Art Center is located in Batokunku .

economy

In January 2009, a 150 KW wind turbine was installed through a private initiative ; it is considered the first wind turbine in West Africa . The system with the 30 meter high lattice mast supplies the place with electricity. The facility, with a total height of 41 meters and a diameter of 27 meters, was built by the Danish Bonus . It was acquired second-hand and was previously in Nysted, Denmark . In spring 2006 she arrived in Gambia by sea from Hamburg using a container. The financial means for this were collected in Germany through donations by a German engineer who had moved his residence to Gambia. Negotiations with the local electricity supplier National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) went more difficult than initially planned.

Since the negotiations were positively concluded, the electricity supplier has paid 80 percent of the end consumer price for every kilowatt hour, the system supplies energy and brings a certain degree of prosperity to the whole town. In March 2009, for example, it delivered 35,000 kilowatt hours. The place and the facility have become a prestige object, since then the Gambia has caught the wind turbine fever, the state guests are shown the facility and other places want to buy a comparable facility.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Batokunku on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Fighting for the windmills Berliner Zeitung (online) from May 6, 2009
  3. ↑ Windstrom Service SH GmbH: In Batokunku one knows Viöl ( Memento from May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed June 2010
  4. ↑ Wind Energy Project Inaugurated in Batokunku The Point (online) from August 7, 2008
  5. ↑ Energy SoS warns against illegal connections - Wind energy system for Batokunku www.wow.gm, from August 1, 2008
  6. ↑ Gambia: Wind Power in Action, Bato-Kunku Way. In: allafrica.com. May 29, 2011, accessed February 26, 2019 .