Basse Santa Su
Basse Santa Su | |
|---|---|
| Error creating thumbnail: Bridge at Basse | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 411: Malformed coordinates value. | |
| Coordinates: Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. | |
| Country | The Gambia |
| Division | Upper River Division |
| District | Fulladu East |
| Elevation | 68 ft (21 m) |
| Population | |
• Total | 18,414 |
| Time zone | UTC+00:00 (GMT) |
Basse Santa Su, usually known as Basse, is a town in the Gambia, lying on the south bank of the River Gambia. The easternmost major town in the nation, it is known for its important market. Basse is the capital of the Upper River Division, which is coterminous with the Basse Local Government Area. As of 2009, the town has an estimated population of 18,414.[1] According to the 2013 census, the Basse LGA has 243,791 residents.[2]
Famous people include Adama Barrow, the president of Gambia.
History
[edit | edit source]According to oral histories, the first Mandinka immigrants to the Gambia area, the Fati clan, settled in Tumana near Basse. They subsequently acted as hosts and/or agents for future migrants, potentially including Tiramakhan Traore. Basse was at this point a hub in regional trade networks bringing kola nuts and Guinea pepper north from what is now Guinea-Bissau and salt and salted fish up the river from the coast.[3]
A bridge over the Gambia river, funded by the Chinese Government, opened in October 2021.[4]
Climate
[edit | edit source]Basse Santa Su has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), almost dry enough to be a hot semi-arid climate (BSh) with almost no rainfall from November to May and heavy rainfall from June to October.
| Climate data for Basse (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 35.3 (95.5) |
37.8 (100.0) |
40.1 (104.2) |
41.4 (106.5) |
40.9 (105.6) |
37.4 (99.3) |
33.5 (92.3) |
32.3 (90.1) |
32.6 (90.7) |
34.7 (94.5) |
36.5 (97.7) |
35.5 (95.9) |
36.5 (97.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.0 (77.0) |
27.6 (81.7) |
30.4 (86.7) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.1 (91.6) |
31.3 (88.3) |
28.7 (83.7) |
27.8 (82.0) |
27.8 (82.0) |
28.9 (84.0) |
27.6 (81.7) |
25.4 (77.7) |
28.8 (83.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 14.6 (58.3) |
17.4 (63.3) |
20.6 (69.1) |
23.7 (74.7) |
25.4 (77.7) |
25.2 (77.4) |
23.8 (74.8) |
23.3 (73.9) |
23.0 (73.4) |
23.1 (73.6) |
18.9 (66.0) |
15.3 (59.5) |
21.2 (70.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.2 (0.01) |
0.4 (0.02) |
0.1 (0.00) |
0.0 (0.0) |
11.1 (0.44) |
93.5 (3.68) |
192.0 (7.56) |
314.3 (12.37) |
227.0 (8.94) |
62.7 (2.47) |
1.6 (0.06) |
0.3 (0.01) |
903.2 (35.56) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 6.3 | 12.1 | 15.6 | 13.8 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 54.2 |
| Source: NOAA[5] | |||||||||||||
Gallery
[edit | edit source]-
Basse riverside in 2000 -
Basse riverside in 2021, showing the new bridge
Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[dead link]
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
