Cufar
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 17 ′ N , 15 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Guinea-Bissau | ||
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| region | Tombali | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GW-TO | ||
| Residents | 219 (2009) | ||
Cufar is a town in southwest Guinea-Bissau with 219 inhabitants (as of 2009).
The village is located in the administrative sector of Catió , capital of the Tombali region .
history
During the Portuguese colonial war , which lasted from 1963 to 1974 in Guinea-Bissau and was particularly intense, the area of today's Catió was the scene of Portuguese commandos and sieges several times .
On March 2, 1974, a few weeks before the end of the Portuguese mission, 19 Portuguese soldiers perished here. A supply convoy , the artistic director - train PINT 9288, transported jerrycans, when he here at the crossing of the Rio Manterunga , a tributary of the nearby Rio Cumbijã on two banks of silt hidden mines in the PAIGC went.
traffic
The place is on the road from Buba to Catió.
Here is an airfield with the ICAO code GGCF. The airport serves in particular the nearby regional capital Catió.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inhabitants by region, sector and town by gender, 2009 census (p. 4, port.), PDF retrieval from the National Statistics Office INE from January 6, 2018