Bambadinca
Sign in to saveBambadinca is a village in one of seven sectors in the Bafatá Region of Guinea-Bissau, situated in some east of Bissau, the country's capital city. In 2009 it had 33,255 inhabitants.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bambadinca
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Sector
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 1973Babadinca0048.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The large landing craft NRP Alfange supplying the garrison of Bambadinca 1973. During the Portuguese Colonial War, the village was an important Portuguese base
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- Bafata sectors.png
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- Bambadinca in Bafatá Region (Yellow)
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- Guinea-Bissau
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- Location of Bambadinca in Guinea-Bissau
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- Country
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- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bafatá Region
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- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 843.8
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2009
- Settlement.population_total
- 32255
- Settlement.population_density_km2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sector of Guinea-Bissau
- Country
- Guinea-Bissau
- Located in
- Bafatá
- Population
- 31834
- Area
- 843.8
- Elevation
- 12
- Image
- 1973Babadinca0048.jpg
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Bambadinca is a village in one of seven sectors in the Bafatá Region of Guinea-Bissau, situated in some east of Bissau, the country's capital city. In 2009 it had 33,255 inhabitants.
Bambadinca is the first developing county, in West Africa, with about 7,000 people with the village rural electrification through a microgrid, providing good quality, reliable and affordable electricity to the population, improving health conditions and supporting fundamental economic activities. To ensure economical and financial sustainability, a three-party participatory management model for the Decentralized System for Production and Distribution of Electricity from Renewable Energy, has been implemented by the community of a local association in cooperation with national authorities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bambadinca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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