Nossa Senhora do Rosário 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 larger eastern part of the municipality of
Ribeira Brava, on the island of
São Nicolau.
Subdivisions
The ''freguesia'' consists of the following settlements (population at the 2010 census):
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Água das Patas (pop: 108)
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Belém
Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the north of B ...
(pop: 132)
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Boqueirão (pop: 15)
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Cachaço (pop: 393)
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Caleijão (pop: 300)
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Campinho (pop: 266)
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Canto Fajã (pop: 238)
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Carriçal (pop: 190)
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Carvoeiros
Carvoeiros is a settlement in the northern region of the island on São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It is situated on the north coast of São Nicolau, 2 km east of Queimadas and 4 km north of Ribeira Brava.
See also
*List of villages and settlements ...
(pop 199)
*
Chã de Norte (pop: 17)
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Figueira de Cocho (pop: 1)
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(pop: 433, town)
[
* Lompelado (pop: 416)
* Morro (pop: 146)
* Morro Brás (pop: 188)
* Pico Agudo (pop: 118)
* Pombas (pop: 125)
* Preguiça (pop: 567)
* Ribeira Brava (pop: 1,936, city)][Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015]
, Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33
* Talho
Talho is a settlement in the central part of the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It is located in the valley of Ribeira Brava, 1 km west of the city Ribeira Brava. In 2010 its population was 308. It is part of the municipality of Ribeira Br ...
(pop: 308)
References
Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde
Parishes of Cape Verde
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