West Africa
Guinea-Bissau
Cacheu region

Canchungo

Canchungo is a town located in the western Cacheu Region of formerly known as Vila Teixeira Pinto after Major João Teixeira Pinto, the Portuguese colonial officer who had brutally 'pacified' the area in the early 20th century.
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  • Type: Town with 6,850 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Pinto”

Canchungo

Latitude
12.06642° or 12° 3′ 59″ north
Longitude
-16.03191° or 16° 1′ 55″ west
Population
6,850
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Open location code
7C453X89+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2297815355
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2373951
Wiki­data ID
Q1318022
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Canchungo” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Canchungo”
  • Catalan: “Canchungo”
  • Cebuano: “Canchungo”
  • Chinese: “坎順古”
  • Chinese: “坎顺古”
  • Dutch: “Canchungo”
  • Finnish: “Canchungo”
  • French: “Canchungo”
  • German: “Canchungo”
  • Japanese: “カンシュンゴ”
  • Japanese: “カンチュンゴ”
  • Korean: “칸슝구”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanšungas”
  • Persian: “کناچنگو”
  • Persian: “کنچونگو”
  • Polish: “Canchungo”
  • Portuguese: “Canchungo”
  • Portuguese: “Teixeira Pinto”
  • Romanian: “Canchungo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کناچنقو”
  • Spanish: “Canchungo”
  • Swahili: “Canchungo”
  • Swedish: “Canchungo”
  • Urdu: “کانشونگو”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Canchungo”. Photo: Joehawkins, CC BY-SA 4.0.