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Preguiça, São Nicolau
Preguiça is a settlement in the central part of the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It is situated on the south coast, 6 km south of Ribeira Brava. It served as the port of Ribeira Brava, after the older ''Porto de Lapa'', 6 km to the northeast, had been abandoned in 1653 due to pirate attacks. The settlement was mentioned as ''Paraghisi'' in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. In 1820 the Forte do Príncipe Real, now ruined, was built to protect the port. Preguiça's port consists of a stone quay and a short mole. Preguiça Airport is located 3 km north of the village. Population history *2000: 465 *2010: 567 See also *List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde This is a list of villages and smaller settlements in Cape Verde: Boa Vista * Bofarreira * Cabeça dos Tarrafes * Curral Velho - abandoned settlement * Espingueira - abandoned settlement * Estância de Baixo * Fundo das Figueiras * João Ga ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Preg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Nicolau, Cape Verde
São Nicolau (Portuguese for ''Saint Nicholas'') is one of the Barlavento (Windward) islands of Cape Verde. It is located between the islands of Santa Luzia and Sal. Its population is 12,424 (2015),Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística with an area of . The main towns are Ribeira Brava and |
Cape Verde
, national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym = Cape Verdean or Cabo Verdean , ethnic_groups_year = 2017 , government_type = Unitary semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President , leader_name1 = José Maria Neves , leader_title2 = Prime Minister , leader_name2 = Ulisses Correia e Silva , legislature = National Assembly , area_rank = 166th , area_km2 = 4033 , area_sq_mi = 1,557 , percent_water = negligible , population_census = 561,901 , population_census_rank = 172nd , population_census_year = 2021 , population_density_km2 = 123.7 , population_density_sq_mi = 325.0 , population_density_rank = 89th , GDP_PPP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde
Ribeira Brava is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 on the island of São Nicolau, . It is the seat of the Ribeira Brava Municipality. Its population was 1,936 at the 2010 census. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes. Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the ''Académie de Marine'' and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50-year career, he produced many maps of particular interest to the ''Ministère de la Marine''. His maps of Canada and of French territories in North America (New France, Acadia, Louisiana) are particularly valuable. He died at Versailles. First ''Ingenieur de la Marine'' In 1721, at age 18, he was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy. In August 1741, he became the first ''Ingénieur de la Marine of the Dépot des cartes et plans de la Marine'' (the French Hydrographical Office) and was named Official Hydrographer of the French King. Prodigious work, high standard of excellence During his reign the Depot published a prodigious number of cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forte Do Príncipe Real
Forte do Príncipe Real (also: ''Forte da Preguiça'') is a ruined fort in the village of Preguiça in the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym .... It was built in 1820 to protect the roadstead and village of Preguiça.Recuperação do Forte da Preguiça C. Amaro and V. Santos, IPPAR, 2002 It sits at about 50 m elevation, at the waterfront. It was abandoned in the first decades of the 20th century, and other buildings (houses, a school) were built on top of its remains. In the 1990s these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mole (architecture)
A mole is a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway separating two bodies of water. The word comes from Middle French ''mole'', ultimately from Latin ''mōlēs'', meaning a large mass, especially of rock; it has the same root as molecule and mole, the chemical unit of measurement. A mole may have a wooden structure built on top of it that resembles a wooden pier. The defining feature of a mole, however, is that water cannot freely flow underneath it, unlike a true pier. The oldest known mole is at Wadi al-Jarf, an ancient Egyptian harbor complex on the Red Sea, constructed ca. 2500 BCE. San Francisco Bay Area In the San Francisco Bay Area in California, there were several moles, combined causeways and wooden piers or trestles extending from the eastern shore and utilized by various railroads, such as the Key System, Southern Pacific Railroad (two), and Western Pacific Railroad: the Alameda Mole, the Oakland Mole, and the Western Pacif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preguiça Airport on the island of Sal, Cape Verde
* Preguiça, São Nicolau, a village on the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde
* Preguiça River in northeastern Brazil
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Preguiça may refer to the following places: * Preguiça, part of the town Espargos Espargos (Portuguese for "asparagus") is the capital and main commercial centre of the island and municipality of Sal, Cape Verde. The city [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Villages And Settlements In Cape Verde
This is a list of villages and smaller settlements in Cape Verde: Boa Vista * Bofarreira * Cabeça dos Tarrafes * Curral Velho - abandoned settlement * Espingueira - abandoned settlement * Estância de Baixo * Fundo das Figueiras * João Galego * Povoação Velha * Prazeres - abandoned settlement Brava * Cachaço * Campo Baixo * Cova Joana * Cova Rodela * Fajã de Água * João da Noly * Lem * Mato * Mato Grande * Nossa Senhora do Monte * Santa Bárbara * Tantum * Tomé Barraz * Vinagre Fogo * Achada Furna * Achada Grande * Atalaia * Cabeça Fundão * Campanas Baixo * Chã das Caldeiras * Corvo * Curral Grande * Estância Roque * Fajãzinha * Feijoal * Figueira Pavão * Fonte Aleixo * Galinheiro * As Hortas * Lagariça * Lomba * Miguel Gonçalves * Monte Grande * Patim * Ponta Verde * Relva * Ribeira do Ilhéu * Salto * Santo António * São Filipe * São Jorge * Tinteira * Vicente Dias Maio * Alcatraz * Barreiro * Calheta * Cascabulho * Figueir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages And Settlements In São Nicolau, Cape Verde
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Coastal Places In Cape Verde
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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