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Pecixe is an island or group of islands in the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau, it belongs to the Cacheu Region and the Caió sector. The area is 168 km², its length is 20.6 km and its witch is 12.8 km. Cassaca is the chief town. The language of the island or islands is reported to be Mandjak (Portuguese: Manjago, also known as Manjaku), a language of Guinea-Bissau with over 72,000 speakers altogether. Jeta, an island lies to the west. It is an island closer to the mainland being 3 km near and separated by the Canal de Gebá, around the end of the Ice Age, it formed a part of the mainland.
Map of Ilha de Pecixe, Guinea-Bissau
Its location is 50 km west of the capital city of Bissau and is located near the Mansoa river in the east, other nearby featured includes Ilha de Mantanbua and its channel to the northeast, three promontories are to the south and a few islets. A lighthouse is located west of Injante. Other towns includes BIeu and Injante.
Its natural vegetation like every part of the coastline of Guinea-Bissau consists of mangrove forests and a swampy rainforest. It has a tropical climate and heavy rainfall occur during summer months. Logging activity occurred in recent decades, some of the land would be for agricultural use, much of it inside a built up area and some within swamps but many areas remains a forest and being used as a forest farm.
In its history, around 1963, Cassaca was liberated from Portuguese rule. The first party congress of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) shortly took place in February 1964. Years later, the island continued to be under Portuguese rule until around early 1974 before Guinea-Bissau became independent later in the year.