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    Cacheu is a town in northwestern Guinea-Bissau lying on the Cacheu River, capital of the eponymous region. Its population was estimated to be 9,849 as...
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    The Cacheu (Portuguese: Rio Cacheu) is a river of Guinea-Bissau also known as the Farim along its upper course. Its total length is about 257 km. One of...
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  • 1865 Joaquim Alberto Marques, Governor of Praça de Cacheu c. 1868 - c. 1871 João Carlos Cordeiro Lobo de Almeida Neto Fortes, Governor of Praça de Cacheu...
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    The Fort of Cacheu is located near the mouth of the Cacheu River, in the city of Cacheu, Cacheu region, in the northwest of Guinea-Bissau. The establishment...
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  • The Cacheu and Cape Verde Company (Portuguese: Companhia de Cacheu e Cabo Verde) was a chartered company created by Portugal which operated the colonies...
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    Guinea-Bissau. It sits on the north bank of the Farim/Cacheu River, about 215 km (135 miles) up the river from Cacheu. Population 8,661 (2009 census). Farim was...
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  • F.C. Catacumba is a Bissau-Guinean football club based in Canchungo. They play in the 2 division in Guinean football, the Campeonato Nacional da Guine-Bissau...
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    12°10′N 16°0′W / 12.167°N 16.000°W / 12.167; -16.000 Cacheu is a region in western Guinea-Bissau, on the border with Senegal. It has an area of 5,175 km2...
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  • The Cacheu River Mangroves Natural Park (Portuguese: Parque Natural dos Tarrafes do Rio Cacheu) is a national park situated on the Cacheu River in Guinea-Bissau...
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  • The Company of Cacheu and Rivers and Commerce of Guinea (Portuguese: Companhia de Cacheu, rios e comércio da Guiné) was a Portuguese colonial company...
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    Xitole Boe Gabú Piche Pirada Sonaco Prabis Quinhamel Safim Bigene Bula Cacheu Caio Canghungo São Domingos Bissorã Farim Mansaba Mansôa Nhacra Bissau (autonomous...
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    is twinned with: Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (1985) Budapest, Hungary (1992) Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau (1988) Fortaleza, Brazil (2016) Guimarães, Portugal (1993)...
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    Guinea-Bissau List of captains-major of Bissau List of captains-major of Cacheu List of governors of Portuguese Guinea List of prime ministers of Guinea-Bissau...
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    retreated to Cacheu after the captain-major was captured and killed by the local king. They would not return until the 1750s. Meanwhile, the Cacheu and Cape...
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    lower Gambia River basin; much of the coast of Guinea-Bissau, including the Cacheu and Mansoa Rivers; across the border in northern Guinea; and much of the...
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    Bafatá 4 Canchungo 12,044 Cacheu 5 Bissorã 9,898 Oio 6 Farim 9,005 Oio 7 Mansôa 8,313 Oio 8 Buba 7,898 Quinara 9 Cacheu 5,891 Cacheu 10 Quinhámel 5,825 Biombo...
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  • significant power in the early development of port economies in Bissau, Cacheu, and surrounding areas. At the time of Prince Henry the Navigator's death...
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  • grouped into 3 provinces: Leste (East): Bafatá, Gabu Norte (North): Biombo, Cacheu, Oio Sul (South): Bolama, Quinara, Tombali List of regions of Guinea-Bissau...
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    Guinea-Bissau List of captains-major of Bissau List of captains-major of Cacheu List of governors of Portuguese Guinea List of presidents of Guinea-Bissau...
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    1680 Bissau even helped the Portuguese in a conflict with the Papels of Cacheu. The city was founded in 1687 as a Portuguese trading post. During this...
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    of Senegal. It is located between the Gambia River to the north and the Cacheu and Geba rivers to the south. There is a bridge at Ziguinchor, one of the...
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    São Tomé Island, Príncipe, Annobón Province, Bioko, Portuguese Angola, Cacheu, Ziguinchor, Ouidah, Bissau "The World at Six Billion". UN Population Division...
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  • Elia) is an island in Guinea-Bissau. It is located on the right bank of the Cacheu River close to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean. The islands's western end...
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  • settlement of Buguendo near Cacheu in 1580 and Guinala in 1583, where they retreated to a fort. In 1590 they built a fort at Cacheu, which the local Manjaks...
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    also drains the Gabú Plain, along with the Farim River (also known as the Cacheu River), and their tributaries. It has long been an important trade route...
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  • of the main ports of the West African region, such as Guinguim, Farim, Cacheu and Geba. She actively participated in trade networks connected to regional...
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  • Bibiana Vaz de França (c. 1630 – 1694+) was a prominent nhara slave-trader in Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau. Bibiana Vaz was a Lançada, or Luso-African born to a Kriston...
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  • The Casamance Creole or Cacheu-Ziguinchor Creole also Portuguis Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language that is considered a dialect of Guinea-Bissau...
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    slaves to the Antilles. It was in this context that the captain-major of Cacheu, António de Barros Bezerra, reported back to Lisbon the French pretensions...
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    went, with the rest of his family, to Bissau and, soon after, in 1969, to Cacheu, where he attended primary school. In 1974, he joined the first groups of...
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