Fatoto

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Fatoto ( spelling variant: Fattoto ) is a village in the West African nation of Gambia.

According to a calculation for 2013 there live about 1632 inhabitants, the result of the last published census in 1993 was 1317.

Geography

Fatoto at 16 m height, located in the Upper River Region ( URR ), Kantora district and is about five kilometers southeast of Garowol away. Basse Santa Su, the headquarters of the administrative unit URR, is 36 kilometers away. On the road Fatoto is 436 km away from the country's capital Banjul. In the immediate vicinity, in the direction Garowol, is the Kusum Forest Park.

The River Gambia has here, dug deep into it at its headwaters in the sandstone plateau, which allows up to twelve meters high steep banks have emerged. The river itself applies to vehicles up to 1.8 meters draft to herein as navigable, which is about 480 river miles. This is particularly important for the transport of the peanut harvest to the seaport to Banjul. The tidal range of the Atlantic is detectable up here.

Gambia's bird life is very extensive, around Fatoto the Rotkopfweber ( Quelea erythrops ), the Karminspint (Merops nubicus ) and the flame - Wida example, were ( Euplectes hordeaceus ) were observed. But the rare Brown Skimmer ( Rynchops flavirostris ) is occasionally seen on the banks of the river.

Resident

Mainly the place is inhabited by the ethnic group of the Fulani who are active in livestock breeding in general. There is a small market, a branch of the Gambian Post and the Gambia Telecommunication ( Gamtel ). There is also a peanut processing plant.