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Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Boa Vista (Portuguese language, Portuguese for "good view"), sometimes incorrectly spelled Boavista, is a desert-like island that belongs to the Cape Verde Islands. At , it is the third largest island of the Cape Verde archipelago. The island of Boa Vista is closer to the African continent than all the other islands in Cape Verde, being the easternmost island of all. The distance between Boa Vista and Senegal is only 450 km. The capital of Boa Vista, Sal Rei, is located in the north-western part of the island. Boa Vista is mainly known for its beaches, turtles and traditional music. Geography Boa Vista is the third largest island after Santo Antão and Santiago, with an area of 631.1 square kilometres. It is situated south of Sal and north of Maio. The island is generally flat, but it has numerous hills like Monte Estância (the highest point of the island at 387 m), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the New World of the Americas (North America and South America) from the Old World of Afro-Eurasia (Africa, Asia, and Europe). Through its separation of Afro-Eurasia from the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean has played a central role in the development of human society, globalization, and the histories of many nations. While the Norse colonization of North America, Norse were the first known humans to cross the Atlantic, it was the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 that proved to be the most consequential. Columbus's expedition ushered in an Age of Discovery, age of exploration and colonization of the Americas by European powers, most notably Portuguese Empire, Portugal, Spanish Empire, Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ervatão
Ervatão or Porto de Ervatão is a beach on the southeast coast of the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands .... At its eastern end is the headland ''Ponta de Ervatão,'' and at its western end is the headland ''Ponta Cosme''. Ervatão is part of the Turtle Nature Reserve (Portuguese: ''Reserva Natural Tartaruga'').Protected areas in the island of Boa Vista - Municipality of Boa Vista, March 2013 The area of Ervatão receives 70% of all turtles nesting on Boa Vista. In July 2009, 8,000 turtle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boa Vista, Cape Verde (municipality)
Boa Vista ( Portuguese for "good view"), sometimes incorrectly spelled Boavista, is a desert-like island that belongs to the Cape Verde Islands. At , it is the third largest island of the Cape Verde archipelago. The island of Boa Vista is closer to the African continent than all the other islands in Cape Verde, being the easternmost island of all. The distance between Boa Vista and Senegal is only 450 km. The capital of Boa Vista, Sal Rei, is located in the north-western part of the island. Boa Vista is mainly known for its beaches, turtles and traditional music. Geography Boa Vista is the third largest island after Santo Antão and Santiago, with an area of 631.1 square kilometres. It is situated south of Sal and north of Maio. The island is generally flat, but it has numerous hills like Monte Estância (the highest point of the island at 387 m), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Povoação Velha
Povoação Velha is a village in the southwestern part of the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde.Patrimonio cultural Municipality of Boa Vista The village is around 16 km south of the island capital Sal Rei. Geography Povoação Velha is situated at the foot of the 357 m high Rocha Estância.Protected areas in the island of Boa Vista- Municipality of Boa Vista, March 2013 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diogo Gomes
Diogo Gomes () was a Portuguese navigator, explorer and writer. Diogo Gomes was a servant and explorer of Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator. His memoirs were dictated late in his life to Martin Behaim. They are an invaluable (if sometimes inconsistent) account of the Portuguese discoveries under Prince Henry the Navigator, and one of the principal sources upon which historians of the era have drawn. He explored and ascended up the Gambia River in West Africa and discovered some of the Cape Verde islands. Early life Probably a native of Lagos, Portugal, Diogo Gomes began as page in the household of Prince Henry the Navigator and subsequently rose to the rank of ''cavaleiro'' (knight) by 1440. Diogo Gomes participated in the 1445 slave raid led by Lançarote de Freitas of Lagos on the Arguin banks, and claims to have personally captured 22 Berber slaves single-handedly.Chronicler Zurara, who relates the raids in some detail, does not seem to make notice of Diogo Gomes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António De Noli
Antonio de Noli (born 1415 or possibly 1419) was a 15th-century Genoese nobleman and navigator, and the first governor of the earliest European overseas colony in Subsaharan Africa. He discovered some of the Cape Verde islands on behalf of Henry the Navigator and was made the first Governor of Cape Verde by King Afonso V. In most history or geographic books, including ancient chronicles, or encyclopedias, he is referred as ''Antonio de Noli''. In Italy, he is known also as ''Antonio da Noli'' or sometimes as ''Antoniotto Usodimare''. Biography Antonio de Noli was born to a patrician family in Genoa, Italy, as referred in ancient sources of the epoch; e.g. Portuguese king's historian João de Barros stated already in 1552 that Antonio Noli was born in Genoa, and "of noble blood". Modern historians and researches also specify Antonio Noli as ''Genovese'' or ''Genoese'', e.g. Dumoriez (1762), Thomas (1860), Hamilton (1975), Diffie and Winius (1977), Irwin and Wilson (1999). It has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilhéu De Sal Rei
Ilhéu de Sal Rei is an uninhabited islet near the coast of Boa Vista Island, Cape Verde. It is located southwest of the island capital Sal Rei. Its area is Resolução nº 36/2016 , Estratégia e Plano Nacional de Negócios das Áreas Protegidas and its highest point is .Protected areas in the island of Boa Vista - Municipality of Boa Vista, March 2013 The islet has exposed basaltic and limestone rock, and there are sandy beaches in sheltered areas. The entire islet is a natural monument. The headland Ponta de Escuma is the islet's westernmost point. A narr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deserto De Viana
The Deserto de Viana is a sand desert in the northwestern part of the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde. It is situated east of the towns Rabil and Sal Rei, and west of Bofarreira. The desert itself is not a protected area, but it is adjacent to the nature reserve ''Boa Esperança'', which includes the Lagoa do Rabil and the Praia de Atalanta.Protected areas in the island of Boa Vista - Municipality of Boa Vista, March 2013 It is considered one of the seven natural wonders of Cape Verde. See also * Geography of Cape Verde * |
Instituto Nacional De Estatística (Cape Verde)
The Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portuguese for the ''National Statistics Institute'', abbreviated as INE) is the Official statistics, public statistics institute of Cape Verde. Its current president is Osvaldo Rui Monteiro dos Reis Borges. The population censuses are held every first year of a decade; the most recent was in 2010. Its main office is on 18 Rua da Caixa Económica in the capital city of Praia. History Until 1975, under Portuguese rule, statistics were done by the Provincial Statistics Bureau (''Repartição Provincial de Estatística''), part of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portugal), Instituto Nacional de Estatística of Portugal. When Cape Verde became independent, the ''Serviço Nacional de Estatística'' (SNE, Portuguese for the National Statistics Service) was established, part of the Ministry of Economy. Its first president was Edgard Chrysostome Pinto. At the end of 1985, the Directorate-General of Statistics was created. In 1996, the new law o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ribeira Do Rabil
Ribeira do Rabil is a seasonal stream in the central and western part of the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde. It is long, and its basin area is . Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 22 Its source is in the southeastern part of the island, north of the island's highest point Monte Estância. It flows generally northwest, passes east of the town Rabil and flows into the |
Ponta Varandinha
Ponta Varandinha is a headland and the westernmost point of the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde. To its north lies the beach Praia da Varandinha. The nearest village is Povoação Velha Povoação Velha is a village in the southwestern part of the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde.Headlands of Cape Verde Geography of Boa Vista, Cape Verde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponta Do Sol (Boa Vista)
Ponta do Sol is a headland located in the northwest of the island of Boa Vista. Cape Verde. It is the island's northernmost point. The town Sal Rei is approximately to the south, and the hill Vigia is to the south. The promontory and the area around it is designated a protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ... as a nature reserve with a total of .Resolução nº 36/2016 Estratégia e Plano Nacional de Negócios das Áreas Protegidas It includes a marine strip from the coast, covering . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
