Buba (Guinea-Bissau)

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Buba
Buba (Guinea-Bissau)
Buba
Buba
Coordinates 11 ° 35 ′  N , 14 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 11 ° 35 ′  N , 14 ° 59 ′  W
Basic data
Country Guinea-Bissau

province

Sul
region Quinara
ISO 3166-2 GW-QU
height 3 m
surface 744.2 km²
Residents 17,123 (2009)
density 23  Ew. / km²
Location of the Buba (pink) sector in the Quinara region
Location of the Buba (pink) sector in the Quinara region

Buba is a port city in Guinea-Bissau with 7571 inhabitants (as of 2009). It is the capital of the Quinara administrative region .

The city is the seat of the administrative sector of the same name with an area of ​​744 km² and 17,123 inhabitants (as of 2009), mainly Biafada ( Beafadas ) and Mandinka ( Mandingas ), as well as minorities of Fulbe ( Fulas ), Balanta , Manjago ( Manjacos ) and Pepel ( Papeis) ).

Buba is located near the mouth of the Rio Grande de Buba in a widely branching ria . From here you have a foothold in the natural park Parque Natural das Lagoas because Cufada .

Economy and Transport

Buba is potentially an important port city, but it is still underdeveloped. Since an agreement in 2007, a loading and deep-sea port is to be built here , but the project has not yet been completed. The contract with the semi-state Angolan mining company Angola Bauxite , which was regarded as unfair, has not yet been implemented due to internal political crises in Guinea-Bissau and renegotiations. The port will have a capacity for three 70-ton ships and will handle up to 3 million tons of bauxite annually from the mine near Boé . An occasionally discussed connection between rail transport in Guinea and Buba, for example , in order to ship parts of Mali's and Niger's exports from there , has not yet been specified.

The economy in the Buba sector is traditionally determined by fishing and agriculture. In addition, the city is important as a regional trading and administrative city.

Buba is connected to the capital Bissau , 223 km to the north, via an asphalted and comparatively good country road .

Town twinning

Web links

Commons : Buba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inhabitants by region, sector and town by gender, 2009 census (p. 14), PDF access from the National Statistics Office INE of January 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Annual Statistical Report Guinea-Bissau 2015 (p. 10), PDF available from the National Statistics Office INE on January 5, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c Joana benzinho, Marta Rosa: À Descoberta da Guiné-Bissau . , Afectos com Letras / EU , Pombal 2015, ISBN 978-989-20-6252-5 , pp. 87 ff.
  4. ^ Bissau government to review Angola Bauxite deal, calls it unfair , article from the Reuters news agency on August 23, 2012 , accessed on January 5, 2018
  5. ↑ Overview of the town twinning of Portuguese municipalities in Guinea-Bissau , website at the umbrella organization of the Portuguese district administrations ANMP, accessed on January 5, 2018