Boké

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title: "Boké" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["sub-prefectures-of-the-boké-region", "ports-and-harbours-of-guinea"] topic_path: "general/sub-prefectures-of-the-boke-region" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boké" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Mohamed Tawel Camara{{Cite news
url	https://www.jeuneafrique.com/646908/politique/guinee-linstallation-des-conseils-municipaux-suscite-la-colere-de-lopposition/
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elevation_m	30
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Boké is the capital city of Boké Prefecture within the Boké Region of Lower Guinea near the border with Guinea-Bissau. It is also a sub-prefecture of Guinea. Located along the Rio Nuñez which flows to its not-too-distant mouth on the Atlantic Ocean, Boké is a port. It is known for the Boké Museum, formerly a slave fort. The town is served by Boké Baralande Airport. As of 2014 the city and surrounding sub-prefecture had a population of 61,449 people.

History

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition:

::quote This part of the Guinea coast was made known by the Portuguese voyagers of the 15th century. In consequence, largely, of the dangers attending its navigation, it was not visited by the European traders of the 16th-18th centuries so frequently as other regions north and east, but in the Rio Pongo, at Matakong (a diminutive island near the mouth of the Forekaria), and elsewhere, slave traders established themselves, and ruins of the strongholds they built and defended with cannon, still exist (e.g., Fortin de Boké). When driven from other parts of Guinea the slavers made this difficult and little known coast one of their last resorts, and many barracoons were built in the late years of the 18th century. It was not until after the restoration of Goree to her at the close of the Napoleonic wars that France evinced any marked interest in the region. At that time the British, from their bases at the Gambia and Sierra Leone, were devoting considerable attention to these Rivières du Sud (i.e, south of Senegal) and also to the Futa Jallon. René Caillié, who started his journey to Timbuktu in 1827, did much to quicken French interest in the district, and from 1838 onward French naval officers, Bouèt-Willaumez and his successors, made detailed studies of the coast. ::

By 1849, the French had caused so much local resentment that France had to take over the Boké area. By 1895, it had become part of French West Africa.

Climate

Boké has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw).

| unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm | Jan precipitation days = 0.1 | Feb precipitation days = 0.1 | Mar precipitation days = 0.1 | Apr precipitation days = 0.3 | May precipitation days = 5.3 | Jun precipitation days = 14.4 | Jul precipitation days = 21.8 | Aug precipitation days = 24.0 | Sep precipitation days = 22.3 | Oct precipitation days = 19.8 | Nov precipitation days = 4.0 | Dec precipitation days = 0.1 | year precipitation days = 112.3 |Jan humidity = 53 |Feb humidity = 58 |Mar humidity = 53 |Apr humidity = 55 |May humidity = 67 |Jun humidity = 76 |Jul humidity = 75 |Aug humidity = 82 |Sep humidity = 92 |Oct humidity = 78 |Nov humidity = 69 |Dec humidity = 58 |year humidity = 68 |Jan sun = 234 |Feb sun = 219 |Mar sun = 246 |Apr sun = 231 |May sun = 219 |Jun sun = 171 |Jul sun = 129 |Aug sun = 113 |Sep sun = 143 |Oct sun = 188 |Nov sun = 218 |Dec sun = 215 |year sun = 2326 | source = NOAA (humidity, sun 1961–1990){{cite web |url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/2.2/data/0-data/Region-1-WMO-Normals-9120/Guinea/CSV/BOKE_61816.csv |title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991-2020 — Boke |publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date = January 4, 2024}}{{Cite FTP | url = ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/TABLES/REG__I/GW/61816.TXT | server = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | title = Boke Climate Normals 1961–1990 | accessdate = July 6, 2015}}

References

Notes

Sources

References

"Guinea". Institut National de la Statistique, Guinea, accessed via Geohive.
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