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Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Cape Verde

Ribeira Grande de Santiago is a concelho (municipality) of Cape Verde.

Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Cape Verde
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The place

Ribeira Grande de Santiago is a concelho (municipality) of Cape Verde. It is situated in the southwestern part of the island of Santiago. Its seat is the city Cidade Velha. Its population was 8,325 at the 2010 census, and its area is 137.3 km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Cape Verde

Airports
Nelson Mandela (RAI), 17 km · Aristides Pereira (BVC), 153 km · Amílcar Cabral (SID), 210 km
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  • Espargos → Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Cape Verde
    216 km · quickest by road, 60h 23m · $21–29
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Cape Verde

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 Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Cape Verde. 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
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    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    285 km
  2. 02
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    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,684 km
  3. 03
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,899 km
  4. 04
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,573 km
  5. 05
    ParamariboSR

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    3,592 km

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