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Commune d'arrondissement in Dakar Region, Senegal

Cambérène

Cambérène is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal.

Cambérène
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The place

Cambérène is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal. As of 2013 it had a population of 52,420.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cambérène

One place 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
    Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor

    Léopold Sédar Senghor Stadium, formerly the Stade de l'Amitie, is a multi-purpose stadium in Dakar, Senegal.It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of ASC Jeanne d'Arc and the Senegal national football team.

    3.5 km · football stadium in Dakar · 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.

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Getting to Cambérène

Airports
Blaise Diagne (DSS), 40 km · Banjul (BJL), 180 km
  • Dakar → Cambérène
    9 km · quickest by road, 18 min · $1
  • Banjul (Yundum) → Cambérène
    180 km · quickest by road, 6h 40m · $27–38
  • Bissau → Cambérène
    379 km · quickest by air, 6h 32m · $250–380
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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 Cambérène

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA state-owned ferry runs between Dakar and Ziguinchor in Senegal's Casamance region (below The Gambia).
  • Get inThe Joola, one of the former ferries on this route, capsized in a storm while overloaded in 2002, regarded as the second deadliest maritime disaster in recent history.
  • Get inThe Aline Sitoé Diatta, built in 2008, is the current ferry.
  • Get inThe ferry runs overnight and takes around 16 hours in each direction.
  • Go nextSine Saloum Delta — Just north of the border with Gambia, the Delta has amazing mangrove forests that you can tour by pirogue (a motored canoe).

From Wikivoyage: Dakar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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If you know how people move in Cambérène – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Cambérène

Cambérène is 3 km from Guédiawaye, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.