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Boa Entrada

Boa Entrada is a settlement in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.

Boa Entrada
Boa Entrada · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Boa Entrada is a settlement in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 1,119. It is situated 2 km north of Assomada city centre. The area is intensively cultivated, especially with sugarcane and mango trees.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Boa Entrada

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Museu da Tabanka

    The Museu da Tabanca is a museum in the town Chã de Tanque in the western part of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. It is dedicated to local culture, including tabanka music.

    2.1 km · music-related museum in Santiago, Cape Verde · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Universidade de Santiago

    The Universidade de Santiago is a private university in Cape Verde. It was established in November 2008.

    2.8 km · private university in Cape Verde (IAU-018563) · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Boa Entrada

Airports
Nelson Mandela (RAI), 28 km · Aristides Pereira (BVC), 141 km · Amílcar Cabral (SID), 197 km
  • Rabil → Boa Entrada
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Espargos → Boa Entrada
    198 km · quickest by road, 60h 54m · $23–32
  • São Pedro → Boa Entrada
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Boa Entrada

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 Boa Entrada. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe port in Praia has direct and indirect connections by ferry to other islands.
  • Get aroundMost of the buses ("aluguer") leave from the "central minibus station" at the bottom of the steps that lead from Parque 5 de Julho to the Old Town in Plato besides the market called Sucupira.
  • Get aroundAlso of note, the minibuses often have destinations in decals on their sides (e.g.

From Wikivoyage: Santiago (Cape Verde), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2022-11.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    270 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,675 km
  3. 03
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,888 km
  4. 04
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,585 km
  5. 05
    ParamariboSR

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    3,593 km

If you know how people move in Boa Entrada – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Boa Entrada