Ribeira Grande (also: ''Povoação'') is the largest town of the Ribeira Grande Municipality on the island of Santo Antão,

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. It has become a city in 2010.Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015

Instituto Nacional de Estatística Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portuguese for "National Institute for Statistics") may refer to: * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde) - the national statistical agency of Cape Verde * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Mozambique) ...

, p. 32-33 In 2010 its population was 2,564. It is situated in the northeastern part of the island, near the outflow of the river

Ribeira Grande Ribeira Grande may refer to the following places: Cape Verde *Ribeira Grande (stream), a stream on the island of Santo Antão *Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde, a town on the island of Santo Antão *Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde (municipality), a municipali ...

and its tributary Ribeira da Torre into the Atlantic Ocean. Neighborhoods include Tarrafal, Rua de Agua, Rua d'Horta and Penha de França. EnseadaRibeiraGrande

History

Although the island was already discovered in 1462, the first evidence of settlement dates from 1548. The main settlement was Ribeira Grande, which became the seat of the municipality of Santo Antão in 1732.Evolução histórica do concelho do Porto Novo
Andreza Costa Dias, 2006, p. 8-12 Its earlier buildings are built with Portuguese colonial architecture. The church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário is the parish church. Notable people includes chemist

Roberto Duarte Silva Roberto Duarte da Silva (25 February 1837, Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde - 8 February 1889, Paris) was a Cape Verdean chemist. Career Duarte Silva began at the age of 14 as an apprentice in a pharmacy. Later he came to Lisbon to work in the Farm ...

, poet Manuel de Novas, and

José Luís Jesus José Luís Jesus (born September 20, 1950) is a former Cape Verdean politician. He was foreign minister of the country from 1998-1999. Biography He was born in Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde, Ribeira Grande, in the north of Santo Antão, Cape Verde ...

, former foreign minister and president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

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