Batepa is a village on São Tomé Island in São Tomé and Príncipe.

[1] It lies 2 km west of Trindade and 2 km east of Monte Café.

It was the starting point of the Batepá massacre, a brutally crushed rebellion in February 1953, in which hundreds of local inhabitants were killed.

[2] It marked the rise of the independence movement in Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, and is commemorated annually as a national holiday (Dia de Mártires da Liberdade) on February 3.

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