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Avenida Marginal (Mindelo)
Avenida Marginal is an important street in Mindelo, São Vicente island, Cape Verde. It runs along the coast of the Porto Grande Bay, connecting the city centre with the northwestern outskirts (Matiota). Its southern end is the intersection with Rua Libertadores de África (the former ''Rua Lisboa'') and Rua da Praia, that continues south along the coast. Avenida Marginal runs along the port of Mindelo, below Fortim d'El-Rei and along ''Praia da Laginha'' in Matiota. Notable structures along the avenue:Inventário dos recursos turísticos do município de S. Vicente Direcção Geral do Turismo, p. 68-72 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindelo
Mindelo is a port cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 , p. 32-33 in the northern part of the island of São Vicente in . Mindelo is also the seat of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz, and the municipality of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Vicente, Cape Verde
São Vicente ( Portuguese for " Saint Vincent") is one of the Barlavento Islands, the northern group within the Cape Verde archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, off the West African coast. It is located between the islands of Santo Antão and Santa Luzia, with the Canal de São Vicente separating it from Santo Antão. Geography The island is roughly rectangular in shape with an area of . From east to west it measures and from north to south .Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 The island, of |
Cape Verde
, national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym = Cape Verdean or Cabo Verdean , ethnic_groups_year = 2017 , government_type = Unitary semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President , leader_name1 = José Maria Neves , leader_title2 = Prime Minister , leader_name2 = Ulisses Correia e Silva , legislature = National Assembly , area_rank = 166th , area_km2 = 4033 , area_sq_mi = 1,557 , percent_water = negligible , population_census = 561,901 , population_census_rank = 172nd , population_census_year = 2021 , population_density_km2 = 123.7 , population_density_sq_mi = 325.0 , population_density_rank = 89th , GDP_PPP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Grande Bay
Porto Grande Bay ( pt, Baía do Porto Grande), also Mindelo Bay, is a bay on the north coast of the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. The main city of São Vicente, Mindelo, is situated at the bay. The Porto Grande Bay is a natural harbour. It stretches between the headlands Ponta João Ribeiro in the northeast and Ponta do Morro Branco in the west. To the northwest it opens towards the Canal de São Vicente, the channel between the islands São Vicente and Santo Antão. The small rocky islet Ilhéu dos Pássaros lies north of the bay. Port facilities The port is owned and operated by ENAPOR, the Cape Verdean port authority. Since the latest modernization in 2014, the port has 4 long quays, 4 shorter quays, a quay for fishing boats with fish processing installations, a container terminal (expanded and modernized in 1997), 2 roll-on/roll-off ramps and 3 passenger terminals. The total length of the quays is 1,560 m, and the maximum depth is 12 m. With 847,602 metric tonnes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matiota
Matiota , code 2110101, p. 27 is a subdivision of the city of in the island of São Vicente, . It is situated 1.2 km northwest of the city centre, along |
Rua Libertadores De África
Rua Libertadores de África (Portuguese for "street of the Liberators of Africa") is one of the main streets in the city centre of Mindelo, Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ... It was formerly called Rua Lisboa (" Lisbon street").Revitalização como mecánismo de protecção do património arquitectónico: uma proposta para Mindelo Valdemar Jorge de Almeida Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortim D'El-Rei .Génese e desenvolvimento da cidade do Mindelo: a preservação de uma identidadeFortim d'El Rei is a fort in Mindelo, in the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. It is located on a hill north of the city centre, in the neighbourhood Fortinho. It was built in 1852 for the defence of Porto Grande Bay and the city of Mindelo Mindelo is a port cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook ... Fred Yanick Fonseca Delgado, 2016, p. 124 Since 1930, it was only used for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Aurélio Gonçalves
António Aurélio Gonçalves, better known as Nhô Roque (25 September 1901 – 30 September 1984), was a Cape Verdean writer, critic, historian and professor. Life Gonçalves was born in the city of Mindelo, capital of the island of São Vicente. He was the son of Roque da Silva Gonçalves. He was absent from the island for 22 years after he headed to the imperial capital of Lisbon in 1917 after his high-school studies at the seminary on the island of São Nicolau. He attended the University of Lisbon where he studied medicine for two years. Later, he studied Fine Arts, history and philosophy. In 1938, he published a dissertation on irony in the work by Eça de Queiroz. He returned to his native island in early 1939. He was a critic in many different areas, book prefaces, literary seminaries of the Professor's Course Formation of the Secondary School, articles and reviews with ''Ponto & Vírgula'', a Portuguese word for "semicolon". He was professor of history and philoso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bana (singer)
Adriano Gonçalves (5 March 1932 – 13 July 2013), known by his stage name Bana and called the " King of Morna", was a Cape Verdean singer and performer of the morna style, the plaintive, melodic lament which is a staple musical style of the country. Biography He was born in Mindelo on 5 March 1932, some sources said he was born on 11 March. In his childhood years, he was surrounded by music with local singers. At age four, he appeared with local singers. Bana, who was over seven feet tall, began his musical career during Portuguese colonial rule, when he worked as a handyman and bodyguard for the legendary Cabo Verdean composer and performer, B. Leza. In the 1950s, the singer, uncle of Cesária Évora taught Bana and many other artists the art of morna songs. In 1958, BeLeza was presented at a round with the Tuna Académica da Coimbra which took place in São Vicente Island. Among the attendees were Portuguese poet and political dissident Manuel Alegre and Portuguese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora GCIH (; 27 August 194117 December 2011), more commonly known as Cize, was a Cape Verdean singer-songwriter. She received a Grammy Award in 2004 for her album '' Voz d'Amor''. Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without shoes, she was known as the "Queen of Morna". Évora began singing as a young woman in bars in her hometown of Mindelo, and came to international prominence in the 1990s. Biography Early life Cesária Évora was born on 27 August 1941 in Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde. When she was seven years old her father, Justino da Cruz Évora, who was a part-time musician, died, and at the age of ten she was placed in an orphanage, as her mother Dona Joana could not raise all six children. At the age of 16, she was persuaded by a friend to sing in a sailors' tavern. She grew up at the house in Mindelo which other singers used from the 1940s to the 1970s, at 35 Rua de Moeda. Other Cape Verdean singers came to the house, including Djô d'El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogamar
''Rogamar'' is the tenth album by Cesária Évora. The album reached the Polish Top 5 charts where it was number four, it was also number 17 in France, number 19 in Portugal, number 23 in Belgium's Wallonia and number 38 in Switzerland. The album is named after the colá song "Rogá mar" made by Teófilo Chantre, the song appears in the seventh track Chart performance The album reach the charts in several countries, particularly Europe. It was number 38 in Switzerland and from March 19, it remained in the Swiss charts for six weeks. Rogamar and some of her singles were also popular in Cape Verde, though Cape Verde did not have its music chart at the time. Track listing #"Sombras di distino" #"Um pincelada" #"Avenida marginal" #"Africa nossa" (with Ismael Lo) #"Tiche" #"São Tomé na equador" (São Tomé São Tomé is the capital and largest city of the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its name is Portuguese for " Saint Thomas". Founded in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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