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for "English port", also: ''Cidade do Maio'', ''Vila do Maio'') is a city
[Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015]
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the southwestern part of the island of
Maio in southeastern
Cape Verde. It is the main urban settlement of the island, and also seat of the
Maio Municipality. Its population was 2,971 in 2010. The name Porto Inglês refers to English ships that exported salt produced on the island of Maio from this town. Salt exploitation continued until the 19th century.
Historia
Municipio do Maio The inconclusive Battle of Maio
The Battle of Jobourg was a minor naval engagement between British and French frigate squadrons during the last weeks of the War of the Sixth Coalition in the 22nd and penultimate year of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. In October ...
was fought between British and French frigate squadrons close to the town on 23 January 1814 in the last stages of the Napoleonic Wars
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The port of Porto Inglês has ferry services to Praia on the island of Santiago
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. The domestic Maio Airport lies 1 km north of the city.
Landmarks:
* Forte de São José and its adjacent lighthouse
*The Nossa Senhora da Luz (Our Lady of Light) church, opened in 1872
* Salinas of the English Port
Historical population
City twinning
* Loures
Loures () is a city and a municipality in Portugal which is part of the District and Metropolitan area of Lisbon. It is the fifth most populous municipality in the country, with a total population of 201,632.
History
There was early human sett ...
, Portugal
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See also
*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 ...
*Tourism in Cape Verde
Tourism in Cape Verde, a group of islands off the coast of Senegal, West Africa, started in the 1970s on the island of Sal and increased slowly in the 1980s and 1990s.
Overview
Tourism contributed US$41 million to the country's economy in the ...
References
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