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Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde (municipality)
Ribeira Brava is a ''concelho'' (municipality) of Cape Verde. Situated in the eastern part of the island of São Nicolau, it covers 65% of the island area (224.8 km2), and is home to 59% of its population (7,580 at the 2010 census). Its seat is the city Ribeira Brava. Subdivisions The municipality consists of two ''freguesias'' (civil parishes): * Nossa Senhora da Lapa *Nossa Senhora do Rosário History The municipality was created in 2005, when the older municipality of São Nicolau was split in two, the southwestern part becoming the Municipality of Tarrafal de São Nicolau and the northeastern part becoming the Municipality of Ribeira Brava. p. 61 Demography Politics Since 2016, the local party GIRB is the ruling party of the m ...[...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] |
Administrative Divisions Of Cabo Verde
The territory of Cape Verde is divided into 22 ''concelhos'' (municipalities), and subdivided into 32 ''freguesias'' (equivalent to civil parish). In Portuguese language usage, there are two words to distinguish the territory and the administrative organ. Administratively, right below the government, there are the ''municípios'' (municipalities), who administrate the ''concelhos''. Therefore, the ''concelhos'' are the first-level administrative subdivision in Cape Verde. Each municipality has an ''Assembleia Municipal'' (municipal assembly, the legislative body) and a ''Câmara Municipal'' (municipal chamber, the executive body). Every four years elections are held for the Assembleia Municipal, the Câmara Municipal and the President of the Câmara Municipal. Where a municipality consists of several ''freguesias'' (civil parishes), a ''Delegação Municipal'' (municipal delegation) is established in the parishes that do not contain the municipal seat. The islands are traditional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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 |
Nossa Senhora Da Lapa (Ribeira Brava)
Nossa Senhora da Lapa is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) of Cape Verde. It covers the smaller northwestern part of the municipality of Ribeira Brava, on the island of São Nicolau. Subdivisions The ''freguesia'' consists of the following settlements (population at the 2010 census): * Covoada (pop: 155) * Estância de Brás (pop: 320) * Fajã de Baixo Fajã de Baixo is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 5,050, in an area of 4.06 km². , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nossa Senhora Do Rosário (Ribeira Brava)
Nossa Senhora do Rosário is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) of Cape Verde. It covers the larger eastern part of the municipality of Ribeira Brava, on the island of São Nicolau. Subdivisions The ''freguesia'' consists of the following settlements (population at the 2010 census): * Água das Patas (pop: 108) * Belém (pop: 132) * Boqueirão (pop: 15) * Cachaço (pop: 393) * Caleijão (pop: 300) * Campinho (pop: 266) * Canto Fajã (pop: 238) * Carriçal (pop: 190) * Carvoeiros (pop 199) * Chã de Norte (pop: 17) * Figueira de Cocho (pop: 1) * Juncalinho (pop: 433, town) * Lompelado (pop: 416) * Morro (pop: 146) * Morro Brás (pop: 188) * Pico Agudo (pop: 118) * Pombas (pop: 125) * Preguiça (pop: 567) * Ribeira Brava (pop: 1,936, city)Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Verdean Local Elections, 2016
Local elections were held in Cape Verde on 4 September 2016. They were a landslide victory for the Movement for Democracy (MpD), that won 18 out of 22 municipalities (13 in 2012). The African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde ( pt, Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde, PAICV) is a democratic socialist political party in Cape Verde. It was formerly a Marxist–Leninist communist party and the sole legal par ... (PAICV) won 2 municipalities (8 in 2012). Results Municipal chamber results The final results are:Official results local elections 2016 , ''Boletim Oficial I Série, Número 53'', 23 September 2016 Municipal assembly results The final results are:References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement For Democracy (Cape Verde)
The Movement for Democracy ( pt, Movimento para a Democracia, MpD) is a Christian democratic and liberal party in Cape Verde. Established in 1990, it was the ruling party from 1991 to 2001 and returned to power in the 2016 parliamentary election. Its members are nicknamed "" (the wind fans) in Portuguese, a reference to the party's logo. History The MpD was established on 14 March 1990 by Carlos Veiga after Prime Minister Pedro Pires of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV, formerly the sole legal party) allowed its creation.Richard A Lobban Jr & Paul Khalil Saucier (2007) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde'', Scarecrow Press, p. 159 The party was publicly launched in May 1990, and its first convention was held in November 1990. In the January 1991 parliamentary elections, the first multi-party elections in the country's history, the MpD won 56 of the 79 seats in the National Assembly. In the presidential elections the following mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Party For The Independence Of Cape Verde
The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde ( pt, Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde, PAICV) is a democratic socialist political party in Cape Verde. It was formerly a Marxist–Leninist communist party and the sole legal party in the country from 1981 to 1990. Its members are nicknamed "" (the tamarinds) in Portuguese, and they identify themselves with the color yellow. History In 1956, its forerunner, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), was founded by the Cape Verdean nationalist leader Amílcar Cabral (born in Guinea-Bissau). PAIGC fought to overthrow the Portuguese Empire, unify Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, and use its vanguardism to advance socialist revolution. From 1961 on, the PAIGC fought a guerrilla warfare campaign in cooperation with its fraternal party umbrella group, the CONCP, during the Portuguese Colonial War. By 1973 the PAIGC controlled Guinea-Bissau, while Portugal's own Carnation Revolution in 1974 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amílcar Spencer Lopes
Amílcar Spencer Lopes (born September 8, 1948) is a Cape Verdean politician and was the 2nd President of the National Assembly from 1991 to 1996. in pdf He succeeded Abílio Duarte and was succeeded by António do Espírito Santo Fonseca. After, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs succeeding José Tomás Veiga. He had the position up to 1998 and was succeeded by José Luís de Jesus José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul .... References External links Biography at the National Assembly website(pdf) 1948 births Living people Cape Verdean diplomats Foreign ministers of Cape Verde Presidents of the National Assembly (Cape Verde) People from São Nicolau, Cape Verde {{CapeVerde-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Lopes Filho
João Lopes Filho (born c. 1943) is a Cape Verdean anthropologist, historian, university professor, novelist and an investigator. A specialist in the largest studies and works of appreciation of the Cape Verdean Creole, a Central-Western Atlantic African Creole, he was born in Santa Catarina in Santiago. He is the main investigator in anthropology and ethnology in the country, he was one of the most awarded professors in the country, he had written about thirty works. He is a teacher at the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV), he heads the João Lopes Foundation on Arts and Literature and the Capeverdean Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Life and career He was born to João Lopes in the village of Fajã de Cima (also as Fajã de São Nicolau) on the island of São Nicolau which today forms a part of the municipality of Ribeira Brava. The last name Lopes Filho is considered a single surname meaning "son of a Lopes family member". His father was a journalist who was involv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Cape Verde
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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