Palha Carga
Palha Carga is a settlement in the western part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.

Palha Carga is a settlement in the western part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is situated 2 km south of Chã de Tanque and 4 km southwest of Assomada.
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Worth seeing in and around Palha Carga
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.
- 01Universidade de Santiago
The Universidade de Santiago is a private university in Cape Verde. It was established in November 2008.
3.6 km · private university in Cape Verde (IAU-018563) · Wikipedia
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Getting to Palha Carga
- Airports
- Nelson Mandela (RAI), 27 km · Aristides Pereira (BVC), 147 km · Amílcar Cabral (SID), 202 km
- Rabil → Palha Carga146 km · quickest by road, 44h 54m · $19–26
- Espargos → Palha Carga204 km · quickest by road, 61h 13m · $24–33
- São Pedro → Palha Carga4962 km · quickest by air, 18h 11m · R$2,620–4,040
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Palha Carga
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 Palha Carga. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Palha Carga
- Chã de Tanquesettlement in Santiago, Cape Verde2.2 km
- Ribeirão Manuelsettlement in Santiago, Cape Verde3.9 km