Porto Novo - Cape Verde

One last card from Africa, also from a Portuguese speaking country, Cape Verde. 

 

  © José Pereira

Porto Novo, is a city situated on the southeastern coast of Santo Antão island. At the 2010 census, the town had 9,310 inhabitants, which makes it the most populous settlement of the island.

Sal Rei - Cape Verde

Cape Verde is one of the countries on my must visit list. Well, all the portuguese speaking countries are on that same list. Miguel already visited the country and he has been to the Boa Vista Island,  the easternmost island of the country.

Photo by Miguel Oliveira

Sal Rei (Portuguese for "Salt King," a name earned when the island led in salt production) is a small islet  on the northwestern coast of the Boa Vista island. The church on this touchnote card is the St. Isabel Church.

São Vicente - Cape Verde

São Vicente is one of the 10 islands of Cape Verde.

"It was discovered on in 1462. Due to its lack of water, the island was initially used only as a cattle pasture by some proprietors of the neighboring island of Santo Antão. The island remained practically uninhabited until the middle of the 19th century. It was only in 1838, when a coal deposit was established in Porto Grande to supply ships on Atlantic routes, that the population started to grow rapidly. Due to the lack of rain and consequent lack of natural resources, the economy of São Vicente is based mainly on commerce and services." - in: wikipedia.

Sal Island - Cape Verde

Sal (Portuguese for “salt” — from the mines at Pedra de Lume) is an island in Cape Verde. It belongs to the northern group of islands, called Barlavento.

Sal Island has 350 days of sunshine. Winds mainly blow from the northeast.

The island is 30 km long by 12 km wide. It is one of the three sandy eastern islands (Sal, Boa Vista and Maio) of the archipelago, with white sandy beaches and fairly flat. The highest elevation of 406 m at Monte Grande. Serra Negra has a height of 92 m.

Cape Verde

A few years my cousins went to Cape Verde and they bought me a few cards from there.

"The Republic of Cape Verde is a republic located on an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa. The previously uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century." - in wikipedia.

This card shows 4 of the 10 islands of the archipelago: São Vicente, Fogo; Sal and Maio. The other 6 are: Santo Antão; Santiago; Santa Luzia; São Nicolau; Boavista and Brava.

Of these, only Santa Luzia and the five islets are uninhabited. Presently it is a natural reserve. All islands are volcanic, but an active volcano only exists on one of the islands, Fogo.

This is the "Pedra do Lume" sea salt field in Sal island.