Macenta

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subdivision_name1 = Nzerekore Region
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subdivision_name2 =Macenta Prefecture
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Macenta is a town in southeastern Guinea, founded by the Toma people. Population 88,376 (2008 est). [ [http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&geo=-89 World Gazetteer] , Retrieved on June 16 2008]

History

Conquered by the French, it was attacked by Liberia in 1996.

Geography

Macenta is the capital of the Macenta Prefecture in southeastern Guinea. It is located in the Guinea highlands (at 2,033 feet (620 m)) on the road from Nzérékoré to Guéckédou. The Nianda River joins the Makonda River near Macenta. [cite book |last=Anderson |first= Ewan.W.|title=International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas By Ewan W. Anderson (2003) |url= http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E7-menNPxREC&pg=PA489&dq=macenta+guinea&sig=RX1RmZ8eYB5H0SXbofGhzzICZCY#PPA489,M1|format= |accessdate= 2008-06-16|publisher=Routledge |isbn= 157958375X |pages= 939]

Economy

Macenta is the major trading market town for tea, coffee, rice, cassava, kola nuts, and palm oil and kernels grown in the surrounding agricultural area. A tea-processing plant was built in Macenta in 1968, and the town has an agricultural-research station, a sawmill, and several secondary schools [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049707/Macenta Encyclopedia Britanica] , Retrieved on June 16 2008] . A trade in smuggling is believed to have developed in Macenta.

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