Pointe-Noire

This article refers to the Congolese city of Pointe-Noire, there are other places with the same name, e.g. B. Pointe-Noire (Guadeloupe) and Pointe-Noire (Quebec) .

Pointe-Noire
Coordinates	4 ° 47 ′  S , 11 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 47 ′  S , 11 ° 50 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Republic of the Congo
department	Pointe-Noire
Residents	752,569 (2009)
founding	1883
politics
mayor	Jean-François Kando (since 2017)
Culture
Twin cities	Le Havre New Orleans
railway station

Pointe-Noire is a port city in the Republic of the Congo with more than 752,000 inhabitants (2009). It is the capital of the Pointe-Noire department.

General

The city is located on the Atlantic coast, north of the border with the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda . It is connected to the capital Brazzaville by a railway line that was built between 1924 and 1934. The city's port was completed in 1939.

Even after the independence of the Congo in 1960, Pointe-Noire was a base for the French army for interventions in Central Africa.

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  Pointe-Noire Stadium

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  Notre Dame Church in Pointe-Noire

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  Beach

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  Beach hotel in Pointe-Noire

economy

Pointe-Noire is the most important seaport in the Republic of the Congo and is considered the country's economic metropolis. Its importance has grown since oil was extracted off the coast. The French group Elf Aquitaine has a branch in the city, which also has an international airport. An important branch of the economy is fishing, which has been suffering from increasing marine pollution since the 1990s due to oil production .

Pointe-Noire is also the terminus of the 1921-1934 built, 510 km long Congo-Ocean Railway from Brazzaville. An extension of 1000 km to Ouésso is planned, especially for timber transport to Pointe-Noire.

education

Pointe-Noire has a campus of the Catholic Institut supérieur de technologie d'Afrique centrale (headquartered in Yaoundé in Cameroon ) as well as higher technical schools for mechanical engineering and maritime technology, as well as a vocational training center for the automotive industry and a business school.

Sports

Pointe-Noire is home to the Abeilles FC football club , which won the Congolese championship in 1967, as well as the EPB Pointe-Noire .

Sons and daughters

• Ernest Kombo (1941–2008), Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Owando
• Alain Mabanckou (* 1966), writer
• Jean-Claude Makaya Loembe (* 1954), Catholic clergyman, former Bishop of Pointe-Noire
• Delvin N'Dinga (* 1988), football player
• Louis Portella (* 1942), Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Kinkala
• Alfred Raoul (1938–1999), politician

Twin cities

• Le Havre , Normandy, France (since 1984) 
• New Orleans , Louisiana, United States (since 1990) 

Climate table

Pointe-Noire
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     160   30th 24     197   30th 24     241   31 24     186   30th 24     85   29 23     1   27 20th     1   25th 18th     2   25th 19th     12   26th 21st     81   28 23     201   29 23     137   29 24 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Pointe-Noire Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 29.6 30.2 30.6 30.4 28.9 26.6 25.0 25.0 26.3 28.0 28.7 29.1 O 28.2 Min. Temperature (° C) 23.6 23.7 23.9 23.9 22.9 20.1 18.3 19.1 21.1 23.1 23.4 23.5 O 22.2 Precipitation ( mm ) 160 197 241 186 85 1 1 2 12 81 201 137 Σ 1,304 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 5.0 5.8 4.8 5.2 4.1 4.1 3.5 3.5 2.1 3.1 3.9 4.5 O 4.1 Rainy days ( d ) 11 12 11 9 4th 0 0 1 5 11 13 8th Σ 85 Humidity ( % ) 85 83 83 85 86 84 84 83 84 83 86 86 O 84.3 Source: wetterkontor.de

Web links

Commons : Pointe-Noire (Congo)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PDF at www.cnsee.org
2. ^ Coopération décentralisée: Pointe-Noire et Le Havre réaffirment leur accord de jumelage. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .