Bula (Guinea-Bissau)
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 6 ′ N , 15 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Guinea-Bissau | ||
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| region | Cacheu | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GW-CA | ||
| surface | 746 km² | ||
| Residents | 29,557 (2009) | ||
| density | 39.6 Ew. / km² | ||
 Location of the Bula sector in the Cacheu administrative region
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Bula is a small town in northwest Guinea-Bissau with 8,678 inhabitants (as of 2009).
The place is the seat of the administrative sector of the same name with an area of 746 km² and 29,557 inhabitants (as of 2009).
Bula is 37 km north of the state capital Bissau and can be reached via the paved overland road from Bissau to the regional capital Cacheu, 70 km away .
The place is determined by colorful stalls that line up on the main street across the town. The place does not offer any special sights.
history
In March 1969 Bula became the seat of its own circle ( concelho ).
After Guinea-Bissau gained independence in 1974, Bula remained in the new administrative structure of Guinea-Bissau .
Sports
The Nuno Tristão FC football club is the most important sports club in the sector. In 2014 he won the national championship of Guinea-Bissau for the first time .
The association welcomes its guests at Estádio José Ansumane Queta in Bula.
It was founded in 1948 under its current name, which is reminiscent of the Portuguese navigator Nuno Tristão . After independence in 1974, it was renamed the Bula Futebol Clube as part of the general decolonization effort . Since December 18, 2007 it has had its original name again.
sons and daughters of the town
- Kumba Ialá (1953–2014), politician, President from 2000 to 2003
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Inhabitants by region, sector and town by gender, 2009 census (p. 124, port.), PDF retrieval from the National Statistics Office INE of December 30, 2017
- ↑ Annual Statistical Report Guinea-Bissau 2015 (p. 11), PDF access from the National Statistics Office INE of December 30, 2017
- ↑ Joana Petrolho, Marta Rosa: À Descoberta da Guiné-Bissau . , Afectos com Letras / EU, Pombal 2015, ISBN 978-989-20-6252-5 , p. 67
- ^ Francisco Henriques da Silva, Mário Beja Santos: Da Guiné Portuguesa à Guiné-Bissau. Fronteira do Caos Editores, Porto 2014 ISBN 978-989-8647-18-4 , p. 148
- ↑ Note (2) on the Nuno Tristão Futebol Clube under I Divisão , website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 6, 2018