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Espargos
Espargos (Portuguese for "asparagus") is the capital and main commercial centre of the island and municipality of Sal, Cape Verde. The cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 is situated in the heart of the island. Geography The highest point of Espargos is , elevation 109 meters, where the radar station and the control tower for the airport are located. The |
Espargos
Espargos (Portuguese for "asparagus") is the capital and main commercial centre of the island and municipality of Sal, Cape Verde. The cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 is situated in the heart of the island. Geography The highest point of Espargos is , elevation 109 meters, where the radar station and the control tower for the airport are located. The |
Sal, Cape Verde
Sal (Portuguese for "salt") is an island in Cape Verde. Sal is a tourist destination with white sandy beaches and over 350 days of sunshine a year. It is one of the three sandy eastern islands of the Cape Verde archipelago in the central Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa. Cabo Verde is known for year-round kiteboarding, for the large reserve of Caretta turtles which hatch from July to September, and the music of Cesaria Evora. History For Europeans , the island was discovered on 3 December 1460 and named ''Llana'' ("flat"). This name was changed into the current "Sal" when the two large salt ponds (Pedra de Lume and Santa Maria) were discovered. The first three centuries after its discovery, the island was only sparsely inhabited; in 1720 there was a small fishing village near present Palmeira. This changed when the salt industry was developed at the end of the 18th century, starting in Pedra de Lume. Santa Maria was founded in the south of the island in 1830 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EN1-SL01
EN1-SL01 is a first class national road on the island of Sal, Cape Verde. It runs from Espargos to Santa Maria.Classification of National Roads Instituto de Estradas It is Sal's only dual carriageway.Ilha do Sal, Rede rodoviária Instituto de Estradas In Espargos it is connected with EN1-SL-02 to Palmeira and EN3-SL-02 to |
Monte Curral
Monte Curral is a hill in the city of Espargos, on the island of Sal, Cape Verde. Its elevation is 109 meters. On the summit there is an air control tower for the nearby Amílcar Cabral International Airport, as well as several telecommunication masts. See also *List of mountains in Cape Verde This is a list of mountains in Cabo Verde: List See also *Lists of mountains by region *Geography of Cape Verde Notes External links * {{Cape Verde topics * Cape Verde Mountains Cape A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveles ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Curral Monte Mountains of Cape Verde Curral Espargos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amílcar Cabral International Airport
Amílcar Cabral International Airport , also known as Sal International Airport, is the main international airport of Cape Verde. The airport is named after the revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral. It is located two km west-southwest from Espargos on Sal Island. Sal is the main hub for the national airline, Cabo Verde Airlines; and serves as a base for carrier Cabo Verde Express. This airport was also one of NASA's locations for a facility to handle the Space Shuttle after reentering from orbit. History The first airport on Sal Island was built in 1939 by Italy, as a fuel and provisions stopping-point on routes from Europe to South America. The first flight, an arrival from Rome and Seville, was on 15 December 1939. As a consequence of World War II, the Italian involvement in the airport project ceased. After World War II, the Portuguese colonial government purchased the airport from Italy and by 1949 the airport was a fully operational. In 1950, DC-4 service on Alitalia began o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabo Verde Express
Cabo Verde Express is a Cape Verdean regional airline headquartered in Espargos and based at Amílcar Cabral International Airport operating domestic scheduled and charter services. History It was established in 1998 by Jean-Christophe Bartz, airline transport pilot and business man with many interests within the airline industry in West Africa. Operations started with a single Cessna Caravan (D4-CBJ). A few months later the Czech-made Let L-410 Turbolet were introduced. The airline employed 14 pilots including 2 freelancers. caboverdeexpress.com, retrieved 24 July 2015 The little airline grew fast under the command of Captain JC Bartz and actively contributed to the tourism development on the island of Boa Vista. Captain JC Bartz sold the airline back in 2007 to the Portugues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria, Cape Verde
Santa Maria (Portuguese for Saint Mary) is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the southern part of the island municipality of Sal, . It is located on the south coast, about 16 km south of the |
Pedra De Lume
Pedra de Lume is a village in the northeastern part of the island of Sal, Cape Verde, Sal, Cape Verde. The village is situated on the east coast, about 5 km east of the island capital Espargos. It has a small port and a lighthouse, Farol de Pedra de Lume. Salt ponds Pedra de Lume has been famous for its salt evaporation ponds (''salinas''), exploitation of which began in the 18th century. According to geologists, the waters in the lake rise from deep in the earth rather than from lateral infiltration from the ocean. The salinas are situated in the crater of an extinct volcano. Together with the mountain Cagarral, the salinas and the crater form a List of protected areas in Cape Verde, protected landscape, covering .Resolução nº 36/2016 Estratégia e Plano Nacional de Negócios das Áreas Protegidas [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmeira, Cape Verde
Palmeira is a townCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the northwestern part of the island of Sal, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 1,420. The town is situated on the west coast, about 4 km west of the island capital . Located at Baía de Palmeira, a small bay south of the vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities And Towns In Cape Verde ...
This is a list of cities and towns in Cape Verde. In Cape Verde, there are two types of urban settlements: cities ( pt, cidades) and towns ( pt, vilas). Since 2015, there are 24 cities and 19 towns. 2000 and 2010. Towns The following table shows the towns (''vilas'') of Cape Verde, with population data from 2010. See also *List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde References External links Instituto Nacional de Estatistica de Cabo VerdeWorld Gazetteer – Population of the towns and cities in Cape Verde {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Cities And Towns In Cape Verde Cape Verde, List of cities in Cape Verde Cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern subregion of a single continent called America. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent generally includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one internal territory: French Guiana. In addition, the ABC islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ascension Island (dependency of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory), Bouvet Island ( dependency of Norway), Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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