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Place in Bafatá Region, Guinea-Bissau From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bafatá is a town in central Guinea-Bissau, known as the birthplace of Amílcar Cabral.[1] The town has a population of 22,501 (2008 est).[2] It is the capital of Bafatá Region as well as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafatá, which was established in March 2001 with Carlos Pedro Zilli as bishop.[3]
Bafatá | |
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Coordinates: 12°10′19″N 14°39′27″W | |
Country | ![]() |
Admin. Region | Bafatá Region |
Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 34,760 |
Bafatá is noted for its brickmaking.[4] By the 1880s it was an established trading centre for the Portuguese, including peanuts, cattle, hides, textiles, and salt.[5]
The town is served by Bafatá Airport, an airstrip,[6] and a regional hospital.[7] There is a hotel, the Bafatá Apartamento Imel. The restaurant Ponto de Encontro serves Portuguese cuisine. The surrounding forests are noted for their monkey and antelope populations, and Maimama Cape, owned by a Cape Verdean, organizes trips to visit the animals for tourists.[8] The town is in a derelict state; the streets contain tumbleweeds and cracked tarmac.[9] Several of the main avenues are named Bissau, Brazil and Guiana.
Bafatá has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), not dissimilar to Bissau although about a third drier overall and substantially hotter during the afternoons due to its inland location. As with all of Guinea-Bissau, there are two extremely contrasting seasons: a dry season from November to May with dusty harmattan winds and sweltering, rainless weather, and a monsoonal wet season from June to October featuring heavy thunderstorm rains almost every day and hot, uncomfortably humid conditions.
Climate data for Bafatá (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 34.2 (93.6) |
37.4 (99.3) |
39.0 (102.2) |
39.7 (103.5) |
38.5 (101.3) |
35.2 (95.4) |
31.9 (89.4) |
31.3 (88.3) |
31.8 (89.2) |
33.0 (91.4) |
33.9 (93.0) |
33.5 (92.3) |
35.0 (95.0) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.4 (77.7) |
27.7 (81.9) |
29.9 (85.8) |
30.8 (87.4) |
30.7 (87.3) |
28.9 (84.0) |
27.2 (81.0) |
26.7 (80.1) |
26.7 (80.1) |
27.4 (81.3) |
27.4 (81.3) |
25.0 (77.0) |
27.8 (82.0) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 16.4 (61.5) |
17.9 (64.2) |
20.8 (69.4) |
21.9 (71.4) |
22.9 (73.2) |
22.7 (72.9) |
22.5 (72.5) |
22.1 (71.8) |
21.7 (71.1) |
21.8 (71.2) |
20.8 (69.4) |
16.4 (61.5) |
20.7 (69.3) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 0.2 (0.01) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.1 (0.00) |
0.2 (0.01) |
24.8 (0.98) |
128.9 (5.07) |
267.8 (10.54) |
344.7 (13.57) |
349.2 (13.75) |
152.4 (6.00) |
3.2 (0.13) |
0.1 (0.00) |
1,271.6 (50.06) |
Average rainy days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 9.2 | 16.6 | 23.2 | 26.6 | 10.3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 89.8 |
Source: NOAA[10] |
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