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Palha Carga

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

Palha Carga
Palha Carga · José Lemos Silva
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Universidade 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

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 Palha Carga

Airports
Nelson Mandela (RAI), 27 km · Aristides Pereira (BVC), 147 km · Amílcar Cabral (SID), 202 km
  • Rabil → Palha Carga
    146 km · quickest by road, 44h 54m · $19–26
  • Espargos → Palha Carga
    204 km · quickest by road, 61h 13m · $24–33
  • São Pedro → Palha Carga
    4962 km · quickest by air, 18h 11m · R$2,620–4,040
  • From anywhere
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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 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.

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

    272 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,680 km
  3. 03
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,894 km
  4. 04
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,580 km
  5. 05
    ParamariboSR

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    3,589 km

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

Around it

Next door to Palha Carga