Tombo (Sierra Leone)
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 13 ′ N , 13 ° 6 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Sierra Leone | ||
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| District | Western Area Rural | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SL-W | ||
| Chiefdom | - | ||
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Tombo is a coastal town on the southern Atlantic coast in the Western Area Rural district of the Western Area in Sierra Leone .
The place is about 49 km southeast of Freetown . The main industry in Tombo is fishing . Other industries in the city are mining and agriculture . Tombo is an important trading and transport hub for fishing boats.
literature
- A. Kotnik: Women in Small-scale Fisheries: The Case of Tombo Village, Sierra Leone , GTZ, 1982.
- A. Kotnik: A demographic and infrastructural profile of the Tombo fishing village, Sierra Leone , GTZ, 1993.