Kafountine
Kafountine is a coastal village in the Casamance region of Senegal. The village traditionally lives from fishing and rice cultivation, but tourism is developing rapidly thanks to the beach along the filao trees and many camps have been set up, particularly around ecotourism.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Christian Pirkl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: village of Senegal
- Also known as: “Cafountine”, “Cafoutine”, and “Kafoutin”
Kafountine
- Categories: human settlement, village of Senegal, chef-lieu, and locality
- Location: Casamance, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.9276° or 12° 55′ 39″ northLongitude
-16.7364° or 16° 44′ 11″ westElevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
7C45W7H7+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 310479710OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Spanish—“Kafountine” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “কাফাউন্টাইন”
- Chinese: “卡豐廷”
- Dutch: “Kafountine”
- French: “Kafountine”
- German: “Kafountine”
- Irish: “Kafountine”
- Spanish: “Kafountine”
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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 “Kafountine”. Photo: Christian Pirkl, CC BY-SA 4.0.