Catió | |
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) Coat of arms | |
)  Catió Location in Guinea-Bissau | |
| Coordinates: 11°17′0″N 15°15′0″W / 11.28333°N 15.25000°W | |
| Country | ){kind=small} Guinea-Bissau |
| Region | Tombali Region |
| Elevation | 1 m (3 ft) |
| Population (2008 est.) | |
| • Total | 9,217 |
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Market, Catió
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Cumbija river near Catió
Catió is a city in south eastern Guinea-Bissau. It is the capital of Tombali Region.
Population 9,217 (2008 est).[1]
Catio, along with Canjadude and other camps were besieged by the Portuguese in 1973.[2]
Notable people
- Abdulai Silá (1958-) -engineer and writer
Climate
Catió has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) with little to no rainfall from November to May and heavy to extremely heavy rainfall from June to October.
| Climate data for Catió | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 31.3 (88.3) | 32.4 (90.3) | 33.2 (91.8) | 33.6 (92.5) | 33.0 (91.4) | 31.1 (88.0) | 29.0 (84.2) | 28.2 (82.8) | 29.7 (85.5) | 30.9 (87.6) | 31.5 (88.7) | 30.5 (86.9) | 31.2 (88.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.4 (77.7) | 26.1 (79.0) | 27.2 (81.0) | 27.9 (82.2) | 27.9 (82.2) | 26.8 (80.2) | 25.8 (78.4) | 25.4 (77.7) | 26.3 (79.3) | 26.9 (80.4) | 27.3 (81.1) | 25.4 (77.7) | 26.5 (79.7) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 19.5 (67.1) | 19.9 (67.8) | 21.2 (70.2) | 22.2 (72.0) | 22.9 (73.2) | 22.6 (72.7) | 22.7 (72.9) | 22.6 (72.7) | 23.0 (73.4) | 22.9 (73.2) | 23.1 (73.6) | 20.4 (68.7) | 21.9 (71.5) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.0) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.0) | 38 (1.5) | 252 (9.9) | 632 (24.9) | 798 (31.4) | 460 (18.1) | 267 (10.5) | 57 (2.2) | 5 (0.2) | 2,511 (98.7) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[3] | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ World Gazetteer Archived October 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved on June 16, 2008
- ^ Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa, Issues 1390-1397. United States. Joint Publications Research Service. 1973. p. 29.
- ^ "Climate: Catió". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved August 8, 2020.