Bumpe is a small town in
Bo District
Bo District is a district in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. It is one of the sixteen districts of Sierra Leone. Bo District is the second most populous district in Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is the city of Bo, which is a ...
in the
Southern Province of
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...
. As of 2013 it had an estimated population of 16,123. The town is located south-west of
Bo.
The town is also known as Bompeh, and both names are applied to a local river. Sir
Samuel Rowe, the British Colonial Governor, visited the area in 1880.
Pan Pacific Investments Corporation (SL) Limited has a license to mine for
diamonds
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of electricity, and insol ...
in Bompeh.
See also
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House of Kposowa
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Mende people
The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, constitute the largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, ethnic group at 35.5% of the total population, which is slightly larger than the Mende ...
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Bumpe–Gao Chiefdom
References
Populated places in Sierra Leone
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