Caia
Caia is a city in Central Mozambique. Caia is most notable for being a crossing point on the Zambezi river, the lowest crossing point before the Indian Ocean. In 2009 a road bridge was opened, largely bypassing Caia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 21,200 residents
- Description: place in Sofala Province, Mozambique
- Also known as: “Caia, Mozambique”
Caia
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Sofala, Central Mozambique, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-17.8277° or 17° 49′ 40″ southLongitude
35.3406° or 35° 20′ 26″ eastPopulation
21,200Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)United Nations Location Code
MZ CMZOpen location code
5GJQ58CR+W7OpenStreetMap ID
node 331713674OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Portuguese—“Caia” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Caia, Mozambique”
- Chinese: “卡亞 (莫桑比克)”
- Chinese: “卡亞”
- Dutch: “Caia, Mozambique”
- French: “Caia”
- Italian: “Caia”
- Polish: “Caia”
- Portuguese: “Caia”
- Portuguese: “Vila de Caia”
- Portuguese: “Vila Fontes”
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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 “Caia”. Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.