Trindade (
Portuguese for the
Trinity
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) is a town located on
São Tomé Island
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, which is part of the
island
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nation of
São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...
. Its population is 16,140 (2012 census).
[2012 detailed census São Tomé e Príncipe]
Instituto Nacional de Estatística It is the seat of
Mé-Zóchi District. It lies 7 km southwest of the capital
São Tomé. Nearby places include
Diogo Simão to the northeast,
Lemos to the east,
Cruzeiro to the south and
Piedade to the west. There is a secondary school in Trindade, opened in 2011, with a capacity of 720 students.
During the
Batepá massacre, a brutally crushed rebellion in February 1953, hundreds of inhabitants of Trindade and nearby
Batepá were killed.
Population history
Notable people
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Almada Negreiros, painter and artist
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Aldair Santos, footballer
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Nuno Xavier, aerospace engineer, signed Independence from Portugal
References
Populated places in Mé-Zóchi District
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