Cacheu
Cacheu is a small city of 10,000 people in northwestern Guinea-Bissau. Notable buildings in Cacheu include the Portuguese-built 16th century fort, dating from the period when Cacheu was a centre for the slave trade.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jcornelius, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cacheu
- Type: Town with 10,500 residents
- Description: city
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Cacheu region, Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.2742° or 12° 16′ 27″ northLongitude
-16.1649° or 16° 9′ 54″ westPopulation
10,500Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)United Nations Location Code
GW CACOpen location code
7C457RFP+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2293469593OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Cacheu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاشيو”
- Asturian: “Cacheu”
- Belarusian: “Кашэу”
- Belarusian: “Кашэў”
- Breton: “Cacheu”
- Catalan: “Cacheu”
- Cebuano: “Cacheu (kapital sa rehiyon sa Guinea-Bissau)”
- Cebuano: “Cacheu”
- Chinese: “卡謝烏”
- Chinese: “卡谢乌”
- Czech: “Cacheu”
- Dutch: “Cacheu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاشيو”
- Esperanto: “Cacheu”
- Finnish: “Cacheu”
- French: “Cacheu”
- Galician: “Cacheu”
- German: “Cacheu”
- Greek: “Κασό”
- Hungarian: “Cacheu”
- Italian: “Cacheu”
- Japanese: “カシェウ”
- Japanese: “カチェウ”
- Korean: “카셰우”
- Lithuanian: “Kašeu”
- Moksha: “Кашэу”
- Northern Frisian: “Cacheu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cacheu”
- Polish: “Cacheu”
- Portuguese: “Cacheu”
- Romanian: “Cacheu”
- Russian: “Кашеу”
- Slovenian: “Cacheu”
- Spanish: “Cacheu”
- Swedish: “Cacheu (regionhuvudort)”
- Swedish: “Cacheu”
- Ukrainian: “Кашеу”
- Urdu: “کاشیو”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Cacheu”. Photo: Jcornelius, CC BY-SA 4.0.