Porto Novo is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the island of Santo Antão, in

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. It is the seat of the

Porto Novo municipality Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

. At the 2010 census, the town had 9,310 inhabitants, which makes it the most populous settlement of the island.

Geography

Porto Novo is situated on the southeastern coast of Santo Antão, opposite the island São Vicente. The city is divided into the following sections: *Abufador *Alto de Peixinho *Alto de São Tomé *Armazém *Bairro *Berlim *Branquinho *Chã de Camoca *Chã de Galinheira *Chã de Itália *Chã de Matinho *Covoada *Lombo Branco *Lombo de Meio *Praia de Topo *Ribeira Corujinho *São Tomé

Demography

History

Due to the aridity of the south coast of Santo Antão, settlement began relatively late. The city was initially a fishing village called ''Porto dos Carvoeiros''. From only 30 dispersed buildings in 1901, it started growing in the 1910s.Evolução histórica do concelho do Porto Novo
Andreza Costa Dias, 2006 The port was inaugurated in 1962, and modernized in 2012-14. Before 1962, ships had to

anchor An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek ἄγ ...

in the bay of Alto Peixinho, and goods and passengers had to be brought ashore with small boats. The seat of the

created in 1962, it gradually became the largest urban settlement of the island. In 2005 the town of Porto Novo became a city.

Climate

Porto Novo has a desert climate. Its annual precipitation is 191 millimeters. The average annual temperature is .

Transport

Since the latest modernization in 2014, the port of Porto Novo has 3 quays, 1 container park, 2 roll-on/roll-off ramps and a

boat ramp A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and retrieving small ...

. The total length of the quays is 268 m, and the maximum depth is 8 m. In 2017 134,141 metric tonnes of cargo and 301,813 passengers were handled (2017).Statistics Porto Novo

ENAPOR ENAPOR (''Empresa Nacional de Administração dos Portos'', Portuguese for "National Company for Port Administration") is the Cape Verdean port authority. Its purpose is the administration, management and economic exploitation of the ports, termin ...

, December 2017 There are 4 daily ferry connections from Porto Novo to

Mindelo Mindelo is a port cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook ...

on São Vicente island.Ferry to Santo Antão
/ref> The national road EN1-SA01 connects Porto Novo with Ribeira Grande, passing through the mountainous interior. The EN1-SA03 leads to Pombas along the east coast. The EN1-SA04 leads west to Ponte Sul. Since the closing of

Agostinho Neto Airport The Agostinho Neto Airport ( Portuguese ''Aeroporto Agostinho Neto'') was an airport located near the town of Ponta do Sol on the northern tip of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. The airport was named after Agostinho Neto, an Angolan p ...

, located in

Ponta do Sol Ponta do Sol (; en, "Cape of the Sun") is a municipality in the southwestern coast of the island of Madeira, in the archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 8,862, in an area of . History The settlement of Ponta do Sol began shortly af ...

, there is no functioning airport on the island.

References

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