Cape Verde
São Vicente
São Vicente Municipality

Mindelo

Mindelo is on the island of . Mindelo is the cultural capital of Cape Verde. You'll hear traditional music commonly played in bars and restaurants around town.
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  • Type: City with 70,000 residents
  • Description: second largest city of Cape Verde
  • Also known as: “Mihdelo” and “Mindello”
  • Postal code: 2110
Photo: Inisheer, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Manuel de Sousa, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena and Fortim d’El-Rei.

Stadium
is a multi-use stadium in Mindelo, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Derby as well as CS Mindelense, Académica, GD Amarantes and Batuque FC and the lesser club of Corinthians São Vicente.

Photo: Manuel de Sousa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fortim d'El Rei is a fort in Mindelo, in the island of , . It is located on a hill north of the city centre, in the neighbourhood Fortinho.

Park
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also popularly known as Praça Nova, is an important square of the city of Mindelo, , . It is located in the northern part of the city center of Mindelo.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lameirão and Ribeira Julião.

Village
Photo: Xuaxo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the northern part of the island of , . It is situated in the hills east of the island capital Mindelo, approximately 3 km southeast of the city centre and west of Monte Verde.

Suburb
is a village in the central part of the island of , . In 2010 its population was 611. It is situated in the valley of the stream , south of the island capital Mindelo, 3.5 km from the city centre.

Suburb
Photo: Kotoviski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a subdivision of the city of Mindelo in the island of , . Its population was 524 at the 2010 census. It is situated directly northeast of the city centre.

Mindelo

Latitude
16.8873° or 16° 53′ 14″ north
Longitude
-24.9864° or 24° 59′ 11″ west
Population
70,000
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CV MIN
Open location code
798QV2P7+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 146154210
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3374462
Wiki­data ID
Q495547
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mindelo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “منديلو”
  • Arabic: “ميندلو”
  • Armenian: “Մինդելու (Կաբո Վերդե)”
  • Armenian: “Մինդելու”
  • Asturian: “Mindelo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mindelu”
  • Belarusian: “Міндэлу”
  • Bengali: “মিন্ডেলো”
  • Bulgarian: “Миндело”
  • Bulgarian: “Минделу”
  • Catalan: “Mindelo”
  • Cebuano: “Mindelo”
  • Chinese: “明德卢”
  • Chinese: “明德洛”
  • Chinese: “明德盧”
  • Czech: “Mindelo”
  • Danish: “Mindelo”
  • Dutch: “Mindelo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “منديلو”
  • Estonian: “Mindelo”
  • Finnish: “Mindelo”
  • French: “Mindelo”
  • Galician: “Mindelo, Cabo Verde”
  • Galician: “Mindelo”
  • German: “Mindelo”
  • Greek: “Μιντέλο”
  • Gujarati: “મિન્ડેલો”
  • Hebrew: “מינדלו”
  • Hindi: “मिन्दिलो”
  • Hungarian: “Mindelo”
  • Indonesian: “Mindelo”
  • Italian: “Mindelo”
  • Japanese: “ミンデロ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Mindel”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Mindelu”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿನ್ಡೆಲೊ”
  • Kirghiz: “Минделу”
  • Korean: “민델루”
  • Latvian: “Mindelo”
  • Lithuanian: “Mindelas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mindelo”
  • Lithuanian: “Mindelu”
  • Low German: “Mindelo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mindelo”
  • Malay: “Mindelo”
  • Maltese: “Mindelo”
  • Marathi: “मिन्देलो”
  • Mingrelian: “მინდელუ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mindelo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mindelu”
  • Norwegian: “Mindelo”
  • Polish: “Mindelo”
  • Portuguese: “Mindelo”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Grande”
  • Romanian: “Mindelo”
  • Russian: “Минделу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mindelo”
  • Sinhala: “මින්ඩෙලෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Mindelo”
  • Spanish: “Mindelo”
  • Swahili: “Mindelo”
  • Swedish: “Mindelo”
  • Tamil: “மிண்டெலோ”
  • Telugu: “మిండేలో”
  • Thai: “ไมน์เดโล”
  • Turkish: “Mindelo”
  • Ukrainian: “Мінделу”
  • Urdu: “مندیلو”
  • Vietnamese: “Mindelo, Cabo Verde”
  • Vietnamese: “Mindelo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mindelo”
  • Wolof: “Mindelo”
  • Yue Chinese: “明德洛”

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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 “Mindelo”. Photo: Kogo, CC BY-SA 3.0.