São Jorge (also: ''São Jorge dos Órgãos'') is a settlement in the central part of the island of
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...
,
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 ...
. It is part of the
São Lourenço 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 Y ...
municipality. In 2010 its population was 6. It is situated 2.5 km southwest of
and 4 km southeast of
Picos
Picos is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil. Picos is the state's third-largest city, located in the south-central region of Piauí and is the most economically developed city in the region. The city's financ ...
. Its elevation is 319 meters.
It is home to the
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
The University of Cape Verde (, abbreviated "Uni-CV") is the only public university of Cape Verde. The main campus is in Palmarejo, Cape Verde, Palmarejo, Praia, but there are also institutes in Mindelo, Assomada and São Jorge dos Órgãos. It ha ...
.
Notable person
The writer
Tomé Varela da Silva
Tomé Varela da Silva (born 1948 in São Jorge dos Órgãos, Santiago, Cape Verde) is a Cape Verdean writer, poet, philosopher and anthropologist which he studies in an orally tradition and the musical heritage of Cape Verde in which he favored f ...
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
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Villages and settlements in Santiago, Cape Verde
São Lourenço dos Órgãos