Ribeira da Barca is a town
[Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015]
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the municipality of
Santa Catarina, on the island of
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
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Cape Verde
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. In 2010 its population was 2,317. It is situated on the west coast, at the mouth of the stream ''Ribeira da Barca'', 11 km northwest of
. The settlement was mentioned as "Rivera das Baras" in the 1747 map by
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 t ...
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Notable people
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António Mascarenhas Monteiro
António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro (; 16 February 1944 – 16 September 2016) was the first democratically elected President of Cape Verde from 22 March 1991 to 22 March 2001.
Early life and education
Born in Ribeira da Barca in 1944 ...
, former president of the Republic of Cabo Verde
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Suzanna Lubrano, singer currently residing in Rotterdam in the Netherlands
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Tcheka
Tcheka (Manuel Lopes Andrade; born in Ribeira da Barca, Santiago, Cape Verde, on July 20, 1973) is a Cape Verdean singer, songwriter and guitarist, who is well known for his work in transposing the traditional genre batuque to the electro-acous ...
, musician
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Geography of Santiago, Cape Verde
Santa Catarina, Cape Verde
Populated coastal places in Cape Verde
Towns in Cape Verde