[ Unemployment affects women more than men. The industrial park of the island—the Industrial Zone of the Lazareto—concentrates diverse types of manufacturing, essentially due to foreign investment, in the activities of footwear, confections, and fish processing.
The National Center of Workmanship of Mindelo supports local craftsmen in the production and commercialization of ceramic parts, articles made of coconut rinds, and necklaces of shells and rocks.
Many sports are practised in São Vicente, and many have spread to the remaining islands. The island is suitable for ]windsurfing
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; the beach of São Pedro is considered one of the best for windsurfing, as shown by the many world-class champions of the sport. Cycling
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, walking trails and horseback riding
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are ways to explore the island. São Vicente has an excellent 18-hole golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
course. For these reasons, tourism
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has excellent growth potential on São Vicente and in the rest of the Cape Verde archipelago. Travel between the diverse localities of the island is provided by a system of public transportation operated by five private companies: Transcor.SA, Morabeza Transport, Transport Joy, Friendship, Sotral and Automindelo. However, especially for places farthest from the city of the Mindelo, namely Baía das Gatas, Calhau, and São Pedro, van and bus leasing are the usual forms of transportation.
Education
The literacy rate is 85%, and 98.9% among Cape Verdean youth. 54% of the island's population (those aged between 1 and 12 years old) receive education. Here are the schools and classrooms in São Vicente:
*Preschool – 25 daycares, the majority with a particular character, about 2,600 attendees between the ages of 1 and 6
*Primary Schools (1st year to 6th year) – 11,000 students in 225 classrooms with 379 teachers.
*Secondary Education (7th year to 12th year) – 8,000 students in 146 classrooms with 384 professors
Educational institutions
The island has 35 primary schools, many of which are in Mindelo, there are other schools in Calhau, Salamansa and São Pedro.
There are five state schools, attended by 8,350 pupils during the 2004–05 school season:
*Liceu Ludjero Lima, with 2,384 students
*Escola Industrial E Comercial Do Mindelo, with 2,245 students
* Escola Secundária Jorge Barbosa, with 1,593 students
*Escola Secundária José Augusto Pinto, with 1,385 students
*Escola Salesiana, with 743 students
Private schools
*Académica do Mindelo – unrelated to the football (soccer) club, today partly related
*Wille
*Centro Técnico Do Mindelo
*Cooperativa Ensino Técnico Do Mindelo
*Cruzeiro
Post-secondary education
*University of Cape Verde
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, Faculty of Engineering and Maritime Sciences and School of Business and Governance
*University of Mindelo
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– Cape Verde's third university
*Instituto Superior de Ciências Económicas Empresariais
*Instituto Superior de Educação igh Educational Institute(campus), part of the University of Cape Verde
*Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde
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(campus)
*Mindelo Escolas Internacional de Artes (Mindelo International School of Arts)
*Universidade Lusófona
Other institutions and observatories
Other academic and research institutions include the INDP Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas and with it the Cape Verde Ocean Observatory CVOO. It also has the CVAO, th
Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory
associated with the University of York (UK), IFT Liepzig (Germany), Max Planck, Jena (Germany) and the Cape Verdean meteorological institute (INMG).
Language
Other than Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
, which is the primary language, Cape Verdean Creole
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is spoken by the majority of the population. The São Vicente variant is known as ''Crioulo de São Vicente'' (in Portuguese) or ''Kriol d Sonsent'' (in Creole).
Orthographic guidelines for writing São Vicentean Kriol
Literature
*''A Poética de Sérgio Frusoni – Uma Leitura Antropológica'' (Mesquitela Lima: Lisboa – 1992: Poeme im Kreol von São Vicente mit portugiesischer Übersetzung)
*''Left-dislocation and topicalization in capeverdean creole''. (Braga, Maria Luiza: Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania
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– 1982; Crioulo of São Vicente)
*''Textos Crioulos Cabo-Verdianos'' – Sergio Frusoni (In 'Miscelânea luso-africana' 1975, herausgegeben von Marius F. Valkhoff)
Notable people
* Carlos Alhinho, football player and coach
* Alexandre Alhinho, football player and coach
* Leonel Almeida, singer
* Bana, singer
* Bau, musician
* B. Leza, singer and composer
*Valter Borges
Valter Gazalanas Borges (born 9 November 1988) is a Cape Verdean international association football, footballer who plays professionally as a midfielder.
Career
Borges began his career for Batuque FC, Batuque in the Cape Verde, before spending two ...
, footballer
* Bela Duarte, artist
* Dulce Almada Duarte (b. 1933), linguist
*Cesária Évora
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, singer
* Fantcha, singer
* Sérgio Ferreira (1946–2006), writer
*Corsino Fortes
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Biography
Forte ...
(1933–2015), writer
* Sergio Frusoni, poet
* João Cleofas Martins, photographer and humorist
* Vasco Martins, composer
*Georgina Mello
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Biography Education
Georgina Benrós de Mello was born in ...
, general director of CPLP nations
* Luís de Montalvor (1891–1947), better known as Luís da Silva Ramos, Portuguese poet
* Yolanda Morazzo (b. 1926), poet and fictionalist
* Tito Paris (b. 1968)
* Erin Pinheiro, footballer
*Rambé
Ramilton Jorge Santos do Rosário (born 4 October 1989), known as Rambé, is a Cape Verdean professional footballer who plays for Académica do Mindelo as a striker.
Club career
Rambé was born in São Vicente. He started out in his native co ...
, footballer
* Onésimo Silveira, poet, diplomat and a political activist
* Ovídio de Sousa Martins, poet
* Adriano Spencer, footballer
* Fredson (Fredson Tavares), footballer
* Carlos Veiga (b. October 21, 1949), former Prime Minister of Cape Verde
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* Lela Violão (Manuel Tomás da Cruz), singer and composer
*Fredson Gomes, taekwondo athlete
Transportation
The island is served by the international Cesária Évora Airport near São Pedro, in the southwestern part of the island. The port of Mindelo, Porto Grande, is the busiest port of Cape Verde, with ferry services to the islands of Santo Antão, São Nicolau, Santiago
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and Sal. There is one first class national road on the island: from the airport to Mindelo. Furthermore, there are two second class and five third class national roads.
Mindelo has a network of buses that connects the majority of the suburbs with the city center. Most of the lines are operated by Transcor SV SA.
Culture
When the port was thriving in the late 19th century, in the early 20th century, it was the mainstream of culture in Cape Verde alongside Santiago. Several works, books and poems in the mid 20th century were related to the rise of nationalism and the independence struggle for the country, notably the review '' Claridade''. It is the birthplace of coladeira music. Also a variant of morna is popular.
Sports
The island has its own football league named the São Vicente Island League
SAO or Sao may refer to:
Places
* Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD
* Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso
* Saco Transportation Center (station code SAO), a train station in Saco, Maine, U.S. ...
. There are also competitions for basketball, volleyball, futsal and athletics. There is a golf course about south of Mindelo.
Twin towns and sister cities
The municipality of São Vicente is twinned with the following municipalities in Portugal:Geminações de Cidades e Vilas
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* Angra do Heroísmo
*Coimbra
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The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto, and Braga, it is the largest cit ...
* Felgueiras
*Mafra
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* Oeiras
* Portalegre
*Portimão
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*Porto
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* Santa Cruz
*Vagos
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*Vila Nova de Famalicão
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References
External links
S. Vicente, Quel País
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