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Batepá
Village in São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe

Batepá

Batepa is a village on São Tomé Island in São Tomé and Príncipe.

Plan a trip to Batepá→From Port Gentil

Its population is 775. It lies 2 km west of Trindade and 2 km east of Monte Café. It was the starting point of the Batepá massacre, a brutally crushed rebellion in February 1953, in which hundreds of local inhabitants were killed. It marked the rise of the independence movement in Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, and is commemorated annually as a national holiday on February 3.

How locals move

Getting around Batepá the local way

  • Get aroundShared yellow minivans ply multiple routes.

From Wikivoyage: São Tomé, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Ji-Elle (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.