Bafatá
Bafatá is a town in central Guinea-Bissau, known as the birthplace of Amílcar Cabral. The town has a population of 22,501. It is the capital of Bafatá Region as well as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafatá, which was established in March 2001 with Carlos Pedro Zilli as bishop.Bafatá is noted for its brickmaking.
Photo: jbdodane, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Bafatá
Church
The Our Lady of Grace Cathedral also called Cathedral of Batafá, is a religious building that… Photo: Jcornelius, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bafatá
- Type: Town
- Description: town in Guinea-Bissau
- Category: city
- Location: Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
- Population: 34,800
- Latitude: 12.1723° or 12° 10' 20.4" north
- Longitude: -14.6555° or 14° 39' 19.8" west
- Elevation: 20 metres (66 feet)
- OpenStreetMap ID: node 1440998494
- GeoNames ID: 2375254
Also Known As
- Arabic: بافاتا
- Azerbaijani: Bafata
- Basque: Bafatá
- Belarusian: Бафата
- Breton: Bafatá
- Catalan: Bafatá
- Cebuano: Bafatá (kapital sa rehiyon)
- Cebuano: Bafatá
- Chinese: 巴法塔
- Czech: Bafatá
- Danish: Bafata
- Danish: Bafatá
- Dutch: Bafatá
- English: Bafata
- Finnish: Bafatá
- French: Bafata
- French: Bafatá
- Galician: Bafatá
- German: Bafata
- German: Bafatá
- Hebrew: באפאטה
- Hungarian: Bafata
- Hungarian: Bafatá
- Italian: Bafata
- Italian: Bafatá
- Japanese: バファタ
- Kazakh: Бафата
- Korean: 바파타
- Lithuanian: Bafata
- Luxembourgish: Bafatá
- Northern Frisian: Bafatá
- Norwegian: Bafatá
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bafatá
- Polish: Bafata
- Polish: Bafatá
- Portuguese: Bafatá
- Romanian: Bafata
- Romanian: Bafatá
- Russian: Бафата
- Scots: Bafatá
- Spanish: Bafata
- Spanish: Bafatá
- Swedish: Bafatá
- Ukrainian: Бафата
- Urdu: بافاتا
In the Area
Localities
- Quartel
- Sinchã Gando
- Gundagá
- Nema
- Sinchã Samba Camarà2½ km east
- Sinchã Iero Leluma3 km west
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. - Lǎozǐ
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