Batokunku
Batokunku is a village located in Kombo South, one of the nine districts of The Gambia's Western Division.
Batokunku is a village located in Kombo South, one of the nine districts of The Gambia's Western Division. In January 2009, the village became notable as the location of the first wind turbine erected in West Africa. The 150 kilowatt turbine, a second-hand machine originally built by the Danish wind energy manufacturer Bonus, currently provides electrical power for the entire village. The windmill is currently serviced/maintained by Global Energy based in the nearby village of Tujereng in collaboration with Windstrom SH from Germany.
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Getting to Batokunku
- Airports
- Banjul (BJL), 16 km · Blaise Diagne (DSS), 153 km · Osvaldo Vieira (OXB), 202 km
- Dakar → Batokunku167 km · quickest by road, 6h 55m · $26–36
- Bissau → Batokunku208 km · quickest by road, 5h 25m · $23–31
- Conakry → Batokunku541 km · quickest by air, 7h 31m · $240–370
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Batokunku
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Batokunku. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Batokunku – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Batokunku
Batokunku is 18 km from Serekunda, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Tanjicity3.5 km