West Africa
Gambia
North Bank Division

Juffureh

Juffureh is a small town in the Gambia on the North Bank of the Gambia River, most famous as the reputed origin of Alex Haley's ancestor Kunta Kinte, as described in Haley's novel Roots.
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  • Type: Village with 406 residents
  • Description: place in North Bank Division, The Gambia
  • Also known as: “Jufureh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maurel Frères Building and Portuguese Chapel of Albreda.

Museum
Photo: jbdodane, CC BY 2.0.
is a museum.

Ruins
Photo: Tjeerd Wiersma, CC BY 2.0.
The or just Albreda Chapel, also Portuguese Chapel of San Domingo, is the name given to a Catholic chapel built by Portuguese explorers in the fifteenth century in the area of which is now a part of the African country of Gambia.

Ruins
Photo: jbdodane, CC BY 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Albreda.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
is a historic settlement in The Gambia on the north bank of the Gambia River, variously described as a 'trading post' or a 'slave fort'. It is located near Jufureh in the and an arch stands on the beach connecting the two places.

Juffureh

Latitude
13.3382° or 13° 20′ 18″ north
Longitude
-16.3815° or 16° 22′ 53″ west
Population
406
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
7C558JQ9+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1643711084
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2413199
Wiki­data ID
Q1711203
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Juffureh” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Juffureh”
  • Cebuano: “Jufureh”
  • Chinese: “珠富雷”
  • Dutch: “Juffure”
  • French: “Juffureh”
  • German: “Juffure”
  • German: “Jufureh”
  • Hebrew: “ג׳ופרה”
  • Indonesian: “Jufureh”
  • Irish: “Jufureh”
  • Italian: “Jufureh”
  • Japanese: “ジュフレ”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Juffure”
  • Persian: “جعفره، گامبیا”
  • Persian: “جعفره”
  • Persian: “جوفوره”
  • Polish: “Fort Jillifree”
  • Polish: “Jillifree”
  • Polish: “Jillifri”
  • Polish: “Juffure”
  • Polish: “Juffureh”
  • Polish: “Jufureh”
  • Polish: “Jufuri”
  • Polish: “Jurufeh”
  • Portuguese: “Jufureh”
  • Romanian: “Jufureh”
  • Spanish: “Juffure”
  • Spanish: “Juffureh”
  • Spanish: “Jufureh”
  • Swedish: “Juffure”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Juffureh”. Photo: N3ddo!, CC BY 2.0.