Batepá
Batepa is a village on São Tomé Island in São Tomé and Príncipe.
Batepa is a village on São Tomé Island in São Tomé and Príncipe. Its population is 775. It lies 2 km west of Trindade and 2 km east of Monte Café. It was the starting point of the Batepá massacre, a brutally crushed rebellion in February 1953, in which hundreds of local inhabitants were killed. It marked the rise of the independence movement in Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, and is commemorated annually as a national holiday on February 3.
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Getting to Batepá
- Airports
- São Tomé (TMS), 10 km · Port Gentil (POG), 258 km
- Port Gentil → Batepá262 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · $180–270
- Corisco Island → Batepá302 km · quickest by air, 4h 52m · $180–280
- Libreville → BatepáTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Batepá
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Batepá. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundShared yellow minivans ply multiple routes.
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