São João Baptista (
Portuguese meaning
Saint John the Baptist
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) is a ''
freguesia
(), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese over ...
'' (civil parish) of
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 covers the eastern part of the island of
Boa Vista. It is named after the church located in Fundo das Figueiras.
Subdivisions
The ''freguesia'' consists of the following settlements:
*
Cabeça dos Tarrafes
*
Fundo das Figueiras
*
João Galego
References
Geography of Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Parishes of Cape Verde
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