Bumpe

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Bumpe is a small town in Bo District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. As of 2013 it had an estimated population of 16,123.{{cite web|url=http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-195&srt=p12n&col=adhoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=&geo=352456808|title=Bumpeh|publisher=World Gazetteer|accessdate=January 12, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209203818/http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-195&srt=p12n&col=adhoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=&geo=352456808|archive-date=2013-02-09|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|title=Three maps, comprising four items (of territory now in SierraLeone)|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details?Uri=C9413049|publisher=The National Archive (UK)}}

Pan Pacific Investments Corporation (SL) Limited has a license to mine for diamonds in Bompeh.{{cite web|title=Industrial Mining Activity in Sierra leone|url=http://www.slmineralresources.org/mining_sector/industrial_mineral_rights_april08.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202193622/http://slmineralresources.org/mining_sector/industrial_mineral_rights_april08.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-02|publisher=Ministry of Mines & Mineral Resources, Sierra Leone}}

See also

References

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{{Bo District}}

Category:Populated places in Sierra Leone

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