Batokunku

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Batokunku ( spelling variants: Bato Kunku, Batukunku ) is a village in the West African nation of Gambia.

According to a calculation for 2013 there live about 512 inhabitants, the result of the last published census in 1993 amounted to 230

Geography

Batokunku is located in the district of Kombo South located in the West Coast region on the Atlantic Ocean, about 1.5 northwest of Tujereng and three kilometers south of Tanji.

The place is situated on the Coastal Road, the Kombo-St. Mary Area connects with the southern towns on the coast.

Culture

In Batokunku is the privately operated Mama Africa Women's Museum and Art Centre.

Economy

In January 2009, was erected by private initiative, a 150 - KW wind turbine, it is considered the first wind power plant in West Africa. The plant with the 30 meter high lattice tower supplies the town with electricity. The plant, with a total height of 41 meters and a diameter of 27 meters, was built by the Danish bonus. It was purchased second-hand and stood before the Danish Nysted. By means of a container it arrived from Hamburg by sea in spring 2006 in the Gambia. The financial resources to were collected by a German engineer who had moved his residence to Gambia, in Germany by donations. Negotiations with the local power company National Water and Electricity Company ( NAWEC ) ran harder than planned.

Since the negotiations were successfully concluded, pays the electricity supplier for every kilowatt hour of 80 percent of the retail price, the system supplies energy and brings a degree of prosperity for the whole place. In March 2009 she delivered, for example, 35,000 kilowatt hours. The place and the system has become an object of prestige, since Gambia has caught the wind turbines fever, the state guests, the system is demonstrated and other place want to also buy a comparable plant.