Porto Gole

Porto Gole
Porto Gole
Coordinates	12 ° 4 ′  N , 15 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 12 ° 4 ′  N , 15 ° 19 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Guinea-Bissau
province	Norte
region	Oio
Residents	216 (2009)

Porto Gole , also Portogol , is a town in the administrative sector of Mansôa in Guinea-Bissau .

The place has 216 inhabitants (as of 2009), mostly belonging to the Balantas ethnic group.

geography

The place on the banks of the Rio Geba is on the road between the capital Bissau and Bafatá , a few kilometers from Bambadinca .

history

Porto Gole is considered to be the place where the Portuguese explorers first set foot in what is now Guinea-Bissau. A memorial there commemorates Diogo Gomes , who was the first European to land here in 1456.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inhabitants by region, sector and town by gender, 2009 census (p. 45), PDF access from the INE National Statistics Office of December 30, 2017
2. ↑ Joana Petrolho, Marta Rosa: À Descoberta da Guiné-Bissau . , Afectos com Letras / EU, Pombal 2015, ISBN 978-989-20-6252-5 , p. 102.
3. ↑ Joana Petrolho, Marta Rosa: À Descoberta da Guiné-Bissau. , Afectos com Letras / EU, Pombal 2015, ISBN 978-989-20-6252-5 , p. 103.