Sonaco
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 24 ′ N , 14 ° 29 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Guinea-Bissau | ||
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| region | Gabu | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GW-GA | ||
| surface | 783.6 km² | ||
| Residents | 37,804 (2009) | ||
| density | 48.2 Ew. / km² | ||
 Location of the Sonaco sector (pink, top left) in the Gabú region
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Sonaco is a small town in northeast Guinea-Bissau with 2321 inhabitants (as of 2009). It is located between Contuboel and the regional capital Gabú , on a tributary of the nearby Rio Gebas .
The place is the same seat management sector km² with an area of 784 and 37 804 inhabitants (as of 2007), mainly Fulani ( port. Fula ). It is the smallest sector in the Gabú region.
The sector, which is characterized by the savannah landscape , is one of the driest areas of the otherwise very water-rich Guinea-Bissau. The nearby Rio Geba and its tributaries nevertheless provide for rich vegetation in places.
structure
The capital Sonaco is divided into five, with subdivisions seven districts ( Bairros ).
The Sonaco sector comprises a total of 152 places, mostly rural villages ( Tabancas ). The most important localities include:
- Fase (1979 inhabitants in two districts)
- Madina Sori (1093 inhabitants)
- Mafanco (1020 inhabitants in two districts)
- Paunca (1718 inhabitants in two districts)
- Saucunda (1483 inhabitants in two districts)
- Sintchã Samba Joquel (903 inhabitants)
- Sonaco (2321 inhabitants in seven districts)
- Tonhataba (809 inhabitants in three districts)
Sports
The most important sports club in the sector is the Futebol Clube de Sonaco football club . FC Sonaco rose to the top Guinea-Bissau league for the first time in 2017 (as of 2017).
He welcomes his guests at the Estádio Conco-Sané in Sonaco.
Since the end of 2017, the association has been holding talks with the traditional Portuguese club Belenenses Lisbon to become a branch association.
Web links
- Entry for Sonaco on www.UNjobs.org
- Recordings from Sonaco from the final festival of the youth maturity and circumcision rite "Fanado" , private recordings from 2016 on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Inhabitants by region, sector and town by gender, 2009 census (p. 114ff), PDF access from the National Statistics Office INE of January 4, 2018
- ↑ Annual Statistical Report Guinea-Bissau 2015 (p. 10), PDF access from the National Statistics Office INE on January 3, 2018
- ↑ a b Joana Petrolho, Marta Rosa: À Descoberta da Guiné-Bissau . , Afectos com Letras / EU, Pombal 2015, ISBN 978-989-20-6252-5 , p. 81
- ↑ Overview of the football season 2017 of the two top leagues of Guinea-Bissau at the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 4, 2018
- ↑ Entry at https://www.fussballzz.de , accessed on January 17, 2018
- ↑ CONVERSAÇÕES COM O FC SONACO DA GUINÉ-BISSAU - “Conversations with FC Sonaco from Guinea-Bissau” , article from December 13, 2017 on the FC Belenenses website, accessed on January 4, 2018