Salamansa is a village in the northeastern part of the island of Sao Vicente,

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 situated on the north coast, approximately 5 km northeast of the city centre of Mindelo. In 2010 its population was 1,179. Salamansa is a fishing village with a long sandy beach.Inventário dos recursos turísticos do município de S. Vicente
Direcção Geral do Turismo, p. 28, 41

In popular culture

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Cais-do-Sodré té Salamansa ''Cais-do-Sodré té Salamansa'' is the first short story book published in 1974 by Cape Verdean writer Orlanda Amarílis. This collection consists of seven short stories in which the day-to-day lives of Cape Verdean emigrants are portrayed. Unli ...

'', a collection of short stories by

Orlanda Amarílis Orlanda Amarílis Lopes Rodrigues Fernandes Ferreira, known as Orlanda Amarílis (8 October 1924 – 1 February 2014) was a Cape Verdean writer. She is considered to be a noteworthy writer of fiction whose main literary themes include perspective ...

published in 1974Obituary Orlanda Amarílis
/ref> *''Salamansa'', a song by Cesária Évora from the album '' Distino di Belita'' (1990) *''Areia de Salamansa'', a song by Cesária Évora from the album '' Cesária'' (1995) *''Pic Nic na Salamansa'', a song by Cesária Évora from the album '' São Vicente di Longe'' (2001)

References

External links

Photo of Salamansa on ecaboverde.comSalamansa on mindelo.info
{{São Vicente Villages and settlements in São Vicente, Cape Verde