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”, “Mindel”, “Mindello”, and “Porto Grande”
  • Postal code: 2110
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Places of Interest

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

Stadium
is a multi-use stadium in Mindelo, Cape Verde.

Photo: Manuel de Sousa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fortim d'El Rei is a fort in Mindelo, in the island of , .

Park
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, also popularly known as Praça…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ribeira Bote and Ribeira Julião.

Suburb
Photo: Manuel de Sousa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a subdivision of the city of Mindelo in the island of , .

Suburb
is a village in the central part of the island of , .

Village
Photo: Xuaxo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the northern part of the island of , .

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)
IATA airport code
VXE
UN/LOCODE
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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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Mindelo” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሚንደሎ”
  • Arabic: “منديلو”
  • Arabic: “ميندلو”
  • Arabic: “مينديلو”
  • Armenian: “Մինդելու (Կաբո Վերդե)”
  • Armenian: “Մինդելու”
  • Asturian: “Mindelo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mindelo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mindelu”
  • Belarusian: “Міндэлу”
  • Bengali: “মিন্ডেলো”
  • Bulgarian: “Минделу”
  • Catalan: “Mindelo”
  • Cebuano: “Mindelo”
  • Chinese: “明德卢”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Mindelo”
  • Hebrew: “מינדלו”
  • Hindi: “मिंडेलो”
  • Hindi: “मिन्दिलो”
  • Hungarian: “Mindelo”
  • Indonesian: “Mindelo”
  • Italian: “Mindelo”
  • Japanese: “ミンデロ”
  • Javanese: “Mindelo”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Mindelu”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿನ್ಡೆಲೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Миндело”
  • Kirghiz: “Минделу”
  • Korean: “민델루”
  • Latvian: “Mindelo”
  • Lithuanian: “Mindelas”
  • Low German: “Mindelo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mindelo”
  • Malay: “Mindelo”
  • Maltese: “Mindelo”
  • Marathi: “मिन्देलो”
  • Mingrelian: “მინდელუ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mindelo”
  • Norwegian: “Mindelo”
  • Oromo: “Mindelo”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿੰਡੇਲੋ”
  • Persian: “مندلو”
  • Polish: “Mindelo”
  • Portuguese: “Mindelo”
  • Pushto: “مندیلو”
  • Romanian: “Mindelo”
  • Russian: “Минделу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mindelo”
  • Sinhala: “මින්ඩෙලෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Mindelo”
  • Somali: “Mindelo”
  • Spanish: “Mindelo”
  • Swahili: “Mindelo”
  • Swedish: “Mindelo”
  • Tajik: “Миндело”
  • Tamil: “மிண்டெலோ”
  • Tatar: “Mindelo”
  • Telugu: “మిండేలో”
  • Thai: “ไมน์เดโล”
  • Turkish: “Mindelo”
  • Ukrainian: “Мінделу”
  • Urdu: “مندیلو”
  • Uzbek: “Mindelo”
  • Vietnamese: “Mindelo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mindelo”
  • Wolof: “Mindelo”
  • Yue Chinese: “明德洛”

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Localities in the Area

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