Pombas
Pombas is a city in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. It is the seat of the municipality Paul. It is situated on the coast, at the mouth of the Ribeira do Paul, 7 km southeast of Ribeira Grande and 15 km north of the island capital Porto Novo.
Photo: CorreiaPM, Public domain.- Type: Town with 1,430 residents
- Description: town in Cape Verde
- Also known as: “Pombas, Cape Verde”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lombo Branco and Sinagoga.
Lombo Branco
Locality
Lombo Branco is a settlement in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. It is situated 4 km southeast of Ribeira Grande and 17 km north of the island capital Porto Novo. Lombo Branco is situated 3½ km northwest of Pombas.
Sinagoga
Village
Sinagoga is a settlement in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. It is situated on the coast, 4 kilometers east of Ribeira Grande and 18 km north-northeast of the island capital Porto Novo. Sinagoga is situated 4 km northwest of Pombas.
Janela
Village
Janela is a settlement in the eastern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. It is situated on the Atlantic coast, 4 km southeast of Pombas and 14 km northeast of the island capital Porto Novo The central village, Pontinha, lies on a rocky peninsula. Janela is situated 4½ km southeast of Pombas.
Pombas
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Paul Municipality, Cape Verde, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
17.14853° or 17° 8′ 55″ north
Longitude
-25.01417° or 25° 0′ 51″ west
Population
1,430
Elevation
191 metres (627 feet)
Open location code
799P4XXP+C8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wolof—“Pombas” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፖምባስ”
- Arabic: “بومباس”
- Asturian: “Pombas, Cape Verde”
- Azerbaijani: “Pombas”
- Bengali: “পম্বাস”
- Catalan: “Pombas”
- Cebuano: “Pombas (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Pombas”
- Chinese: “蓬巴什”
- Dutch: “Pombas, Cape Verde”
- French: “Pombas”
- French: “Vila das Pombas”
- German: “Pombas”
- Greek: “Βίλα ντας Πόμπας”
- Greek: “Πόμπας”
- Hausa: “Pombas”
- Hindi: “पोम्बास”
- Indonesian: “Pombas”
- Italian: “Pombas”
- Japanese: “ポンバス”
- Javanese: “Pombas”
- Kazakh: “Помбаш”
- Kirghiz: “Помбаш”
- Korean: “폼바스”
- Malay: “Pombas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pombas”
- Oromo: “Pombas”
- Panjabi: “ਪੋਮਬਾਸ”
- Persian: “پومباس”
- Polish: “Pombas”
- Portuguese: “Cidade das Pombas”
- Portuguese: “Pombas”
- Portuguese: “Vila das Pombas”
- Pushto: “پومباس”
- Russian: “Помбаш”
- Somali: “Pombas”
- Spanish: “Pombas (Paul)”
- Spanish: “Pombas”
- Swahili: “Pombas”
- Swedish: “Pombas (kommunhuvudort)”
- Swedish: “Pombas”
- Tajik: “Помбаш”
- Tatar: “Pombas”
- Thai: “ปงบัช”
- Turkish: “Pombas”
- Ukrainian: “Помбас”
- Urdu: “پومباس”
- Uzbek: “Pombas”
- Wolof: “Pombas (Kap Weert)”
- Wolof: “Pombas”
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