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Ilha Verde, also known by its Cantonese name Cing-zau and Mandarin name Qingzhou, is an area in the northwest of
Ilha Verde, also known by its Cantonese name Cing-zau and Mandarin name Qingzhou, is an area in the northwest of Macau Peninsula
The Macau Peninsula is the most populous and historical part of Macau. It has an area of () and is geographically connected to Guangdong Province at the northeast through an isthmus wide. The peninsula, together with downtown Zhuhai, sits o ...
, Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
that forms part of the Our Lady Fatima Parish. It is a former island
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—known in English as Verde or Green Island—to the west of the Macau Isthmus. It was settled by Jesuits
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.
Ilha Verde was connected to the Macau Peninsula in 1895 when a causeway
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(now Avenida do Conselheiro Borja
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) was built. Since then reclamation projects around the island took place and now it is annexed to be a part of Macau Peninsula.
Colina da Ilha Verde is a hill comprising much of Ilha Verde. The hill is tall, the sixth tallest in Macau. The government built barracks on the hill in 1865 and much of the island was of military area for decades, due to it being close to the Chinese border. The area used to be a crab-catching place but ceased to be upon the completion of the Ilha Verde cement factory in 1887.
Education
University of Saint Joseph
The University of Saint Joseph (USJ; ; pt, Universidade de São José) is a Catholic university founded in 1996, previously known as Macau Inter-University Institute (; pt, Instituto Inter-Universitário de Macau; IIUM). It was jointly org ...
has its main campus in Ilha Verde. It moved into this campus in September 2017.
See also
*Geography of Macau
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Macau is a Special Administrative Region on the southern coast of China. It is located at the south of Guangdong Province, on the tip of the peninsula formed by the Zhujiang (Pearl River) estuary on the east and the Xijiang (West Riv ...
* List of islands and peninsulas of Macau
There are one peninsula, one main island, and several small artificial islands in the Macao Special Administrative Region. The main island is located to the south of the Macau Peninsula and at the east of Hengqin Island of the Pearl River ...
* Other Verde Islands
* Other Green Islands
References
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