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Catió is a city in south eastern
Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...
. It is the capital of Tombali Region. Population 9,217 (2008 est). Catio, along with
Canjadude Canjadude is a village in the Gabú sector of the Gabú Region in north-eastern Guinea-Bissau. It lies to the south of Uelíngarà. Canjadude, along with Catió Catió is a city in south eastern Guinea-Bissau. It is the capital of Tombali Re ...
and other camps were besieged by the Portuguese in 1973.


Notable people

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Abdulai Silá Abdulai Silá (also Silla, Sila; born 1 April 1958 in Catió), is a Guinea-Bissauan engineer, economist, social researcher and writer. He is the author of three novels: ''Eterna Paixão'' (1994), ''A Última Tragédia'' (1995) and ''Mistida'' (19 ...
(1958-) -engineer and writer


Climate

Catió has a
tropical monsoon climate An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ...
( Köppen ''Am'') featuring hot temperatures year-round, little to no rainfall from November to May and heavy to extremely heavy rainfall from June to October.


References

Tombali Region Populated places in Guinea-Bissau Sectors of Guinea-Bissau {{guineaBissau-geo-stub