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São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde

São Lourenço dos Órgãos is a concelho (municipality) of Cape Verde.

São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde
São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde · Wikimedia Commons
The place

São Lourenço dos Órgãos is a concelho (municipality) of Cape Verde. It is situated in the mountainous central part of the island of Santiago. Its seat is the city João Teves. Its population was 7,388 at the 2010 census, and its area is 36.9 km2. The municipality is bordered by Santa Cruz to the northeast, São Domingos to the south, Ribeira Grande de Santiago to the southwest and São Salvador do Mundo to the northwest. Pico de Antónia, the island's highest mountain, straddles the borders of São Lourenço dos Órgãos, São Salvador do Mundo and Ribeira Grande de Santiago.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde

3 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
    Pico da Antónia

    Pico de Antónia is a mountain located in the central part of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. At 1,394 m, it is the highest point of the island.

    2.9 km · mountain in Cape Verde · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    1.3 km · botanical garden in Cape Verde · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Monte Tchota

    Monte Tchota is a mountain located in the central part of Santiago Island in Cape Verde. Its elevation is 1,041 m.

    3.7 km · mountain · 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 São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde

Airports
Nelson Mandela (RAI), 18 km · Aristides Pereira (BVC), 142 km · Amílcar Cabral (SID), 199 km
  • Rabil → São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde
    139 km · quickest by road, 44h 15m · $17–23
  • Espargos → São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde
    199 km · quickest by road, 60h 35m · $22–30
  • São Pedro → São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde
    4951 km · quickest by air, 17h 21m · R$2,590–4,000
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for São Lourenço dos Órgãos, 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 São Lourenço dos Órgãos, 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
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    279 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,674 km
  3. 03
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,888 km
  4. 04
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,583 km
  5. 05
    ParamariboSR

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    3,599 km

If you know how people move in São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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