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This is a list of cities and towns in Cape Verde. In Cape Verde, there are two types of urban settlements: cities (Portuguese: cidades) and towns (Portuguese: vilas). Since 2015, there are 24 cities and 19 towns. [1] Every seat of a municipality has been designated a city.
Cape Verde (/ ˈ v ɜːr d (i)/ ⓘ, VURD(-ee)) or Cabo Verde (/ ˌ k ɑː b oʊ ˈ v ɜːr d eɪ / ⓘ KAH-boh VUR-day, / ˌ k æ b oʊ-/ KAB-oh -, [ˈkabu ˈveɾdɨ]), 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 4,033 square kilometres ...
Cape Verde 0.661 4 Santo Antão: 0.642 5 Santiago-Interior: 0.604 References This page was last edited on 21 November 2024, at 11:48 ...
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande: Ribeira Grande. Cultural (ii) (iii) (vi) 2009 The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Velha in the late 18th century, was the first European colonial outpost in the tropics.
This is a list of villages and smaller settlements in Cape Verde: Boa Vista. View of the village. Bofarreira; Cabeça dos Tarrafes; Curral Velho - abandoned settlement;
Ponta Preta (Portuguese meaning "black tip") is a headland in the southwest of the island of Sal in Cape Verde. It is about 2 km west of the town Santa Maria and about 2 km of Ponta do Sinó, the southernmost point of the island. It lies within the nature reserve Ponta do Sinó, at the edge of a tourism development zone. [1]
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The ocean near Cabo Verde is an area of tropical cyclone formation; since these storms have the whole Atlantic over which to develop as they move westward, they are among the most intense hurricanes, and are called Cape Verde-type hurricanes. The Cape Verde islands are a very degradated area. Also, most islands do not always get a monsoon.