Kau-ur
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Coordinates: 13 ° 42 ′ N , 15 ° 20 ′ W |
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| Region: | Central River | |
| District: | Lower Saloum | |
| Residents: | 1957 (2013)
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Kau-ur (spelling variants Kauur and Kaur ) is a town in the West African state of Gambia .
According to a calculation for 2013, about 1957 inhabitants live there, the result of the last published census from 1993 was 2300.
geography
The village of Kau-ur is located in the Central River Region , Lower Saloum District , on the right, northern side of the Gambia River at 43 m . On the North Bank Road , Gambia's second most important highway, the place is about 37 kilometers east of Farafenni . The Belel Forest Park is in the immediate vicinity . The numerous Senegambian stone circles can also be found in this region, east of Kau-ur .
The mangroves can be found up to here, around 200 kilometers from the mouth of the river in the Atlantic Ocean . Further up the river, the vegetation is determined by gallery forest .
economy
The place is one of the most important inland ports in the Gambia, two thirds of the country's peanut production is loaded onto barges here in Kau-ur and transported across the river to the seaport in Banjul . In addition, an operation of the state marketing organization, the Gambia Produce Marketing Board (GPMB), is based here. The GPMB processes part of the harvest into peanut oil .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Baboucarr Gaye (1951–2007), journalist and radio presenter
- Sulayman Sait Mboob (born 1948), politician
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kau-ur on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)
literature
- Craig Emms, Linda Barnett, Richard Human: The Gambia. The Bradt Travel Guide (= Bradt Travel Guide ). 2nd edition. Bradt Travel Guides, Chalfont St. Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-137-4
- Ilona Horn: Gambia. Small vacation paradise in West Africa. 2nd updated edition. Horn Ilona Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-932084-19-5
- Rosel Jahn: Gambia. Travel guide with regional studies. With a travel atlas (= Mai's Weltführer. Vol. 29). Mai, Dreieich 1997, ISBN 3-87936-239-4