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Longueira, Cape Verde
Longueira is a village in the southcentral part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 326. Longueira is located 4 km southwest of João Teves and 1.5 km west of São Jorge. Monte Tchota, the highest point of the mountains of Rui Vaz Rui Vaz is a settlement in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 1,078. It is situated at 809 m elevation, 2 km south of São Jorge dos Órgãos SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, i ..., lies to the south. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Longueira Cape Verde Villages and settlements in Santiago, Cape Verde São Lourenço dos Órgãos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago, Cape Verde
Santiago (Portuguese language, Portuguese for “James, son of Zebedee, Saint James”) is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation's population. Part of the Sotavento Islands, it lies between the islands of Maio, Cape Verde, Maio ( to the east) and Fogo, Cape Verde, Fogo ( to the west). It was the first of the islands to be settled: the town of Ribeira Grande (now Cidade Velha and a UNESCO World Heritage Site) was founded in 1462. Santiago is home to the nation's capital city of Praia. History The eastern side of the nearby island of Fogo, Cape Verde, Fogo collapsed into the ocean 73,000 years ago, creating a tsunami high which struck Santiago. In 1460, António de Noli became the first to visit the island. Da Noli settled at ''Ribeira Grande'' (now Cidade Velha) with his family members and Portuguese from Algarve and Alentejo in 1462. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 lie between west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa. The List of islands of Cape Verde, Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles. The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited until the 15th century, when Portuguese Empire, Portuguese explorers colonized the islands, establishing one of the first Age of Discovery, European settlements in the tropics. Due to its strategic position, Cape Verde became a significant location in the Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade during the 16th and 17th centuries. The islands experienced economic growth during this period, driven by their role by the rapid emergence of merchants, priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Teves
João Teves is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde), Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, Santiago, Cape Verde. It is situated 19 km northwest of the capital Praia, on the national road from Praia to Assomada (EN1-ST01). It is the seat of São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde, São Lourenço dos Órgãos municipality. A source river of the Ribeira Seca (Santiago), Ribeira Seca flows through the town. 
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São Jorge (Santiago)
São Jorge (also: ''São Jorge dos Órgãos'') is a settlement in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, Santiago, Cape Verde. It is part of the São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Cape Verde, São Lourenço dos Órgãos municipality. In 2010 its population was 6. It is situated 2.5 km southwest of João Teves and 4 km southeast of Picos, Cape Verde, Picos. Its elevation is 319 meters. It is home to the Jardim Botânico (Cape Verde), Jardim Botânico (Botanical Garden), the only one in Cape Verde. There is also a research institute of the School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, part of the University of Cape Verde. Notable person The writer Tomé Varela da Silva was born in the village in 1950.Gerald M. Moser, ''Changing Africa : the first literary generation of Independent Cape Verde'', American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1992, p. 17-18 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sao Jorge Villages and settlements in Santiago, Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Tchota
Monte Tchota (also: ''Monte Txota'') is a mountain located in the central part of Santiago Island in Cape Verde. Its elevation is 1,041 m. It is part of the Serra do Pico de Antónia Natural Park, Áreas protegidas Cabo Verde and lies 1.5 km southeast of , the highest point of the island. The village lies 3 km to the east. See also *List of mountains in Cape Verde
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Rui Vaz
Rui Vaz is a settlement in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 1,078. It is situated at 809 m elevation, 2 km south of São Jorge dos Órgãos 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 * Serb Autonomous Regions (''Srpska autonomna oblast'', SAO), during the breakup of ... and 4 km west of São Domingos. It is part of the municipality of São Domingos. References {{Subdivisions of Santiago, Cape Verde São Domingos Municipality, Cape Verde Villages and settlements in Santiago, Cape Verde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages And Settlements In Santiago, Cape Verde
A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a Church (building), church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
