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==List of colonial heads of Cacheu==
The territory is located in Guinea-Bissau.
{| class="wikitable" |- !Tenure !Incumbent !Notes |- |colspan="3"|'''Portuguese Suzerainty''' |- |July 1615 - April 1619||'''Baltasar Pereira de Castelo-Branco''', Administrator|| |- |April 1619 - July 1620||'''António de Proença''', Administrator|| |- |July 1620 - 1620||'''Francisco de Moura''', Administrator|| |- |1620 - September 1623||'''Francisco de Távora''', Administrator|| |- |c. 1625 - c. 1632||'''Francisco Sodré Pereira''', Administrator|| |- |163? - 1634||'''Francisco Nunes de Andrade''', Administrator|| |- |1634||'''Domingos Lobo Reimão''', Administrator|| |- |c. 1635 - 163?||'''Manuel Ferreira de Brito''', Administrator||Functions ceased |- |163? - 1641||'''Luís de Magalhães''', Captain-Major|| |- |1641 - 1644||'''Gonçalo de Gamboa de Ayala''', Captain-Major||1st Term, died in 1650 |- |1644||'''Paulo Barradas da Silva''', Captain-Major||in office, died in 1647 |- |1644 - 1649||'''Gonçalo de Gamboa de Ayala''', Captain-Major||2nd Term, died in 1650 |- |1648 - 1649||'''Belchior Teixeira Cabral''', Captain-Major||Captain Major under office by Gonçalo de Gamboa Ayala |- |1649 - 1650||'''Gaspar Vogado''', Captain-Major||in office |- |1650||'''António Mendes Arnaut''', Captain-Major|| |- |1650 - 1654||'''João Carreiro Fidalgo''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1655||'''Manuel Paços de Figueiroa''', Captain-Major|| |- |1655 - 1657||'''Francisco Pereira da Cunha''', Captain-Major|| |- |1657 - 1662||'''Manuel Dias Cotrim''', Captain-Major|| |- |1662 - 1664||'''António da Fonseca de Ornelas''', Captain-Major|| |- |1664 - 1667?||'''João de Carvalho Moutinho''', Captain-Major|| |- |1667 - 1670?||'''Manuel de Almeida''', Captain-Major|| |- |1670? - 167?||'''Ambrósio Gomes''', Captain-Major||in function (1621–1679) |- |c. 1671||'''Manuel Pacheco de Melo''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1671 - c. 1673||'''Manuel Moniz de Mendonça''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1674 - 1676||'''Sebastião Vidigal da Rosa''', Captain-Major|| |- |1676 - 1682||'''António de Barros Bezerra''', Captain-Major||1st Term |- |1682 - 1685||'''Gaspar da Fonseca Pacheco''', Captain-Major|| |- |1685 - 1686||'''João Gonçalves de Oliveira''', Captain-Major|| |- |1686 - 1688||'''António de Barros Bezerra''', Captain-Major||2nd Term |- |1688 - 1689||'''Rodrigo de Oliveira da Fonseca''', Captain-Major|| |- |1689 - 1690||'''José Pinheiro da Câmara''', Captain-Major||1st Term |- |1690 - 1691||'''Domingos Monteiro de Carvalho''', Captain-Major||died in office |- |1691 - 7 January 1692||'''Santos Vidigal Castanho''', Captain-Major||1st Term, died in 1707 |- |7 January 1692 – 15 March 1694||'''José Pinheiro da Câmara''', Captain-Major||2nd Term |- |1694 - 1706||'''Santos Vidigal Castanho''', Captain-Major||2nd Term, died in 1707 |- |1706 - Junho de 1708||'''Paulo Gomes de Abreu e Lima''', Captain-Major||(1664 - 17??) |- |1708 - 1715||..., Captain-Major|| |- |1715 - 1719||'''António de Barros Bezerra, Jr.''', Captain-Major||1st Term, died in 1737 |- |1719 - 17??||'''Inácio Lopes Ferreira''', Captain-Major|| |- |17?? - c. 1721||'''Manuel Lopes Lobo''', Captain-Major||1st Term |- |c. 1721 - 17??||'''António de Barros Bezerra, Jr.''', Captain-Major||2nd Term, died in 1737 |- |c. 1723 - 1727?||'''Pedro de Barros''', Captain-Major|| |- |1727? - 1730?||'''Manuel Lopes Lobo''', Captain-Major||2nd Term |- |1730 - 1731||'''João Perestrelo''', Captain-Major|| |- |1731 - 1734||'''António de Barros Bezerra, Jr.''', Captain-Major||3rd Term, died in 1737 |- |1733 - c. 1737||'''João Pereira de Carvalho''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1737 - c. 1740||'''Damião de Bastos''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1741 - 174?||'''Nicolau de Pina de Araújo''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1744||'''Manuel Pires Correia''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1747||'''Dionísio de Carvalho de Abreu''', Captain-Major|| |- |1748 - 1751||'''João de Távora''', Captain-Major||(1703–1752) |- |1751 - c. 1755||'''Francisco Roque Souto-Maior''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1765 - 1766||'''Sebastião da Cunha Souto-Maior''', Captain-Major|| |- |1766 - 1770||'''Bernardo de Azevedo Coutinho''', Captain-Major|| |- |1770 - c. 1775||'''José Vicente Pereira''', Captain-Major|| |- |1775 - 1780||'''António Vaz de Araújo''', Captain-Major|| |- |2 June 1781 – December 1783||'''Pedro Correia de Seabra''', Captain-Major|| |- |17 de Dezembro de 1783 - 7 de Abril de 1784||'''António Teles de Meneses''', Captain-Major||Died in office |- |1784? - 1786||'''João Pereira Barreto''', Captain-Major||In office |- |May 1786 - c. October 1788||'''Luís Pedro de Araújo e Silva''', Captain-Major|| |- |c. 1788||'''Lopo de Almeida Henriques''', Captain-Major|| |- |May 1793 - 1797||'''Francisco Joaquim de Almeida Henriques''', Captain-Major|| |- |December 1797 - March 1801||'''Manuel Pinto de Gouveia''', Captain-Major|| |- |''1801–1803'' ||'''José Joaquim de Sousa Torvão''', Captain-Major|| |- |1803–1804||'''João António Pinto''', Captain-Major|| |- |1804 ||'''João Pereira Barreto, Jr''', Captain_Major||1.º Mandato |- |1804-1811||'''João António Pinto''', Captain-Major|| |- |16 February 1812 – 22 August 1814||'''Joaquim José Rebelo de Figueiredo e Góis''', Captain-Major|| |- |April 1815 – 1818||'''João Cabral da Cunha Godolfim''', Captain-Major||1st Term |- |December 1818 – 1819||'''João Teles de Meneses Drummond''', Captain-Major||1st Term |- |1820–1821||'''José Correia de Barros''', Captain-Major|| |- |April 1821 – 1823||'''João de Araújo Gomes''', Captain-Major|| |- |December 1823–''1826'' ||'''João Cabral da Cunha Godolfim''', Captain-Major||2nd Term |- |1826–182?||'''António Tavares da Veiga Santos''', Captain-Major|| |- |1829-182?||'''José Joaquim Lopes de Lima''', Captain-Major|| |- |1830-183?||'''João Cabral da Cunha Godolfim''', Captain-Major||3rd Term |- |30 March 1834 – 1835||'''Honório Pereira Barreto''', Captain-Major||1st Term (1833–59) |- |c. 1835–1837||'''José António Ferreira''', Captain-Major|| |- |1838–18??||'''Delfim José dos Santos''', Captain-Major|| |- |October 1842 – 1844||'''António dos Santos Chaves''', Captain-Major|| |- |August 1844 – 1846||'''José Xavier do Crato''', Captain-Major||1st Term |- |1846–1848||'''Honório Barreto''', Captain-Major||2nd Term |- |1848–c. 1849||'''José Xavier do Crato''', Captain-Major||2nd Term |- |1852–1854||'''Honório Barreto''', Captain-Major||3rd Term |- |c. 1864 - c. 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|| |- |}
==See also== *Guinea-Bissau **Heads of State of Guinea-Bissau **Heads of Government of Guinea-Bissau **Colonial Heads of Portuguese Guinea **Colonial Heads of Bissau *lists of incumbents *List of national leaders
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