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João Teves

João Teves is a city in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.

João Teves
João Teves · Wikimedia Commons
The place

João Teves is a city in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is situated 19 km northwest of the capital Praia, on the national road from Praia to Assomada (EN1-ST01). It is the seat of São Lourenço dos Órgãos municipality. A source river of the Ribeira Seca flows through the town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around João Teves

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
    Jardim Botânico

    The Jardim Botânico Nacional Grandvaux Barbosa is the only botanical garden in Cape Verde. The garden is located in São Jorge, in the middle of the island Santiago.

    2.7 km · botanical garden in Cape Verde · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Barragem de Poilão

    Barragem de Poilão is a dam located in the eastern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, in the municipality of São Lourenço dos Órgãos. It impounds the stream Ribeira Seca, the island's largest river.

    3.9 km · dam in Cape Verde · 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 João Teves

Airports
Nelson Mandela (RAI), 18 km · Aristides Pereira (BVC), 140 km · Amílcar Cabral (SID), 198 km
  • Rabil → João Teves
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Espargos → João Teves
    200 km · quickest by road, 60h 32m · $22–30
  • São Pedro → João Teves
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 João Teves

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 João Teves. 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

    279 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,672 km
  3. 03
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,887 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

    3,600 km

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

Around it

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