Bambesa Territory Explained
| Official Name: | Bambesa |
| Settlement Type: | Territory |
| Pushpin Map: | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Coordinates: | 3.4°N 25.7°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Bas-Uele |
| Seat: | Bambesa |
| Unit Pref: | metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 9,130 |
| Population Total: | 209,297 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CAT |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
Bambesa is a territory of the province of Bas-Uele resulting from the dismemberment of the former Orientale (Eastern) province.[2] [3] Its administrative center is the town of Bambesa.
Settlements include the town of Makongo on the Makongo River and Zobia on the Bima River.
In the surroundings around Bambesa, mainly green-green deciduous forest grows.[4] Around Bambesa, it is sparsely populated, with 17 inhabitants per square kilometer.[5] Tropical monsoon climate prevails in the area.[6] Annual average temperature in the funnel is 21 °C. The warmest month is June, when the average temperature is 22 °C, and the coldest is July, at 20 °C.[7] Average annual rainfall is 1,716 millimeters. The rainy month is August, with an average of 252 mm rainfall, and the driest is January, with 28 mm rainfall.[8]
Location
The smallest territory of Bas-Uele. It has an area of . It is bordered:
- to the north: by the territories of Ango and Bondo;
- to the east: by the territory of Poko
- to the west: by the territory of Buta
- to the south: by the territory of Banalia in the province of Tshopo
Notes and References
- Web site: Cellule d'Analyses des Indicateurs de Développement . caid.cd . 2020-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200519045648/https://www.caid.cd/index.php/donnees-par-province-administrative/province-de-bas-uele/territoire-de-bambesa/?secteur=fiche . 2020-05-19 . dead . fr . 2023-03-25.
- Web site: Administrative Zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa). April 2008. statoids. 5 June 2018.
- Web site: Bambesa. Google maps. 5 June 2018.
- Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification. 2018-06-05. 2016-02-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20160228161657/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MCD12C1_T1. dead.
- Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Population Density.
- Peel . M. C. . Finlayson . B. L. . McMahon . T. A. . 2007-10-11 . Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences . English . 11 . 5 . 1633–1644 . 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . free . 2007HESS...11.1633P . 1027-5606.
- Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. 2018-06-05. 2017-11-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20171128214629/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php. dead.
- Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). 2018-06-05. 2019-04-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20190419091014/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014. dead.
