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	Encyclopedia: Portuguese Creole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Creole is used as lingua franca in Guinea-Bissau; it is spoken by 60% of the population.
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	Chronology
		1754 Drought and famine in all of the Islands.
		1843 Drought and famine in Santo Antao, Santiago, Sao Nicolau and Brava.
		1941-1943 Famine and drought in all of the islands.
	www.umassd.edu /specialprograms/caboverde/cvchrono.html (10805 words)

	CaboVerdeOnline.com - São Nicolau
		The island of S.Nicolau is situated to the north of the Archipelago.
		With a surface area of 346 km2, its widest point in the North/South direction of 25 km is on the western side and its shape is very similar to that of the African Continent, narrowing to the east for a distance of 52 km.
		The very active volcanic past of the island is majestically visible in Monte Gordo, the highest peak of the island with an altitude of 1304 m.
	www.caboverdeonline.com /caboverde/islands/sao_nicolau/sao_nicolau.asp (348 words)

	Cape Verde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The previously-uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century; they subsequently became a trading centre for African slaves.
		Cape Verde was uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived in 1456, and the islands were thus made part of the Portuguese empire.
		Crioulo of São Nicolau: Eduardo Augusto Cardoso, Baltasar Lopes da Silva
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Verde_Archipelago (1114 words)

	CAPE VERDE - SAO ANTAO -
		The landscape of Santo Antao is the most spectacular of all of the Cape Verde Islands, the second largest island: with its 43 km lenght and 23 km wide.
		The territory is departed into two very different areas: the west side caractherized by desert, rock and is almost uninhabitated, the north-east side is a charming reach area, with its craters, golden cultivated fields, with banana, papaya, green valleys and deep canyons.
		Vila de Ribeira Brava, the capital town of the island, is located in a deep valley with an empty river bed flanked by two mountain ranges.
	www.capoverdenews.com /saoantao_en.html (441 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sao Thiago de Cabo Verde
		This diocese has the seat of its bishopric on the Island of S. Nicolau and comprises the Cape Verde Archipelago, which forms one civil province, and Portuguese Guinea, on the coast of Senegambia, which forms another.
		THE PROVINCE OF CAPE VERDE (CABO VERDE), with the seat of the civil and military Government at Praia, on the Island of S. Thiago, lies between 14°40' and 17°14' N. latitude and between 22°50' and 25°30' longitude W. of Greenwich.
		In the Barlavento group of islands there are two judicial districts, one with its seat at Santo Antão, the other at Mindello, on the Island of S. Vicente.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13467a.htm (722 words)

	Excite España - Viajes - Africa - Sao Tome E Principe - ResortsExcursions
		The islands lie on an alignment of dormant volcanoes, with rugged landscapes, dense forests and virgin, palm-fringed beaches.
		The history of the islands is dominated by the slave trade and slave-worked plantations.
		The island of São Tomé, with its capital of the same name, represents 90 per cent of the total surface of the country.
	www.excite.es /viajes/guias/africa/sao_tome_e_principe/ResortsExcursions (503 words)

	Cape Verde Islands - Travel Photos by Francisco Santos
		Pombas, or Vila das Pombas ("town of the doves") is a village in the Northeast of Santo Antão, on the wet shore.
		A stunning, extensive mountain range divides the island into two sections, one to the north and the other to the south.
		It is at the entrance of the Porto Grande, São Vicente Island.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /cape_verde_outer_islands.htm (479 words)

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		The valleys on the whole are generally narrow and deep, except for the Vale de Fajã which is wide and fertile enough for agriculture to flourish.
		Although São Nicolau was discovered on the 6th of December 1461, it was o nly during the middle of the XVII century, when the first village was built in Porto da Lapa, that people began to settle there.
		It was on the island of S.Nicolau that the 1st seminary of the Archipelago has established, on the 5 th of September 1866.
	www.cvwa.homestead.com /islandofsnicolau.html (520 words)

	The People, Geography, and Culture of the Cape Verde Islands - Portuguese Genealogy and Heritage
		The islands llie in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Senegal.
		The literacy rate in the islands is one of the highest throughout Africa at 71.6% (1995).
		The primary languages of the islands are Portuguese and Crioulo (a blend of African and Portuguese languages).
	www.islandroutes.com /portuguese/capeverdepgc.shtml (383 words)

	Sao Nicolau Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Portuguese Ilha de São Nicolau, English Saint Nicholas Island island of Cape Verde, in the Atlantic Ocean, between the islands of Santa Luzia and Boa Vista, about 400 miles (640 km) off the West African coast.
		The total area of both islands is 386 square miles (1,001 square kilometers), making the republic one of the smallest countries in the world.
		The island republic of São Tomé and Príncipe is located on the equator in the part of the Gulf of Guinea known as the Bight of Biafra.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9065681 (860 words)

	Santa Luzia Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		An archipelago, or group of islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, the republic of Cape Verde is 385 miles (620 kilometers) off the western coast of Africa.
		Islands are found in oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers.
		Nine islands and about 50 islets and reefs are scattered over an area of about 200 miles (320 kilometers) in diameter.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9065593 (902 words)

	Cape Verde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Cape Verde itself the PAICV (affiliated with the PAIGC) governed until elections were held in 1991 that resulted in a change of government.
		The government of Cape Verde is based on a Constitution that was established in 1980.
		Crioulo of São Nicolau: Eduaro Augusto Cardoso, Baltasar Lopes da Silva
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cape_Verde (1151 words)

	Cape Verde Accommodation - Island of Santo Antao
		The usual way is to reach the island by ferry from the port of Mindelo, located on the island of Sao Vicente.
		The first contact on the island is with the small port town of Porto Novo where the ferry docks.
		Be sure not to leave the island without tasting the grogue, the famous Cape Verdian rum, made from the sugar cane grown on the island, the coffee and the small, sweet bananas.
	www.capeverdeaccommodation.com /hotel_listing.php?island=santoantao (313 words)

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		At the moment, and in spite of little rain, Fogo is an island of unbelieavable fertility, which gives it a caracteristic contrast of a solified fl lava and several tones of greens on the cultivated fields.
		The city of Sao Filipe is the Fogo’s Island Municipality capital, it is the oldest populated center of Cape Verde after the ruin of Ribeira Grande, also known as Old City in the Sao Tiago’s Island.
		In the meantime it should be said that the first television broadcast between Sao Tiago and Fogo was received in the parish of Santa Catarina, in which a modulator of television waves, transmitted signals from Monte Tchota in Sao Tiago to a television receiver in Cova Figueira, received just with a dipolo antena.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/santacatarinafogo/ingles.html (1843 words)

	Cape Verde offers a genuine African experience, in safety: 10/29/00
		The roofless Sao Francisco convent is partly concealed beneath fast-growing tropical vegetation.
		Overlooking the town is the 16th-century Sao Filipe clifftop fort, where hefty cannon point their iron snouts to the horizon.
		The largest are: Carnival in February, mostly in Mindelo and on Sao Nicolau; in April, the festival of Bandeira de Sao Filipe on Fogo island; in June, St. John's Day on Santiago and Maio islands; the Baia das Gatas Festival on Sao Vicente in August.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/10-00/10-29-00/e10tr168.htm (2039 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Bird observations in the Cape Verde Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Cape Verde Islands are an archipelago consisting of 10 islands and several islets situated in the Atlantic Ocean c.
		Together with the islands of the Azores, the Canaries and the Madeira-Selvagens, the Cape Verde Islands form the socalled “Macaronesia”, situated in the subtropical and tropical eastern part of the Atlantic Ocean.
		Biogeographically, the Cape Verde Islands belong to the Western Palaearctic, and not to the Afrotropics.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/cape-verde/cv3/cv-oct-03.htm (6579 words)

	Cowley Ms. Comparisons
		The Island lyeth from the Latitude of one degree South to the Lyne Equinoctial.
		The Duke of Norfolk's Island lying to the eastward of the King's Island, lying from the latitude of 0°35' South to the latitude of 0°5' North, and longitude 277°42' [87°31'].
		We made to this island, where we brought our ship too, lying by till we had sent our boat on shore for coconuts, we being there for the space of 3 hours on the eastermost side thereof, where is anchor ground and a good large bay about 11 fathoms water.
	www.galapagos.to /texts/COWLEY-2.HTM (6056 words)

	Cape Verde
		The islands of Brava and Santo Antao no longer have functioning airports so air evacuation in the event of a medical emergency is nearly impossible from these two islands.
		Asphalt roads are relatively uncommon except for airport connector roads (on the islands of Sao Vicente and Sal) and a few roads within Praia and Mindelo.
		Not all flights between islands are direct, only Sal, Santiago and Sao Vicente have daily service, and travelers to Sao Nicolau, Boavista, and Maio usually must transit another island before reaching their destination.
	travel.state.gov /travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1083.html (2600 words)

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		Antonio Lopes, ("Tony Lopes") was born on January 27, 1897 in the village of Junqalinho in the island of Sao Nicolau, Cape Verde Islands, West Africa.
		Tony Lopes left Sao Nicolau for the island of Brava when he was 24 years old.
		In those days the Island of Brava was frequently used by the Yankee whaling fleet and was the port of embarkation for many Cape Verdeans immigranting to America.
	www.umassd.edu /SpecialPrograms/caboverde/tlopes.html (468 words)

	afrol News: Six new natural parks planned in Cape Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The project is foreseen to have an impact on the island's fragile environment and on the growing tourism industry in Cape Verde.
		Monte Verde (774 meters altitude), the highest peak in the northern Island of São Vicente, is expected to be the major tourist attraction of the six parks, with its "attractions, resources and climatic conditions," according to Vera-Cruz.
		Monte Gordo in northern São Nicolau Island also is a volcanic mountain with an altitude of 1304 meters.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/cav016_nature_parks.htm (472 words)

	Afrique CAP VERT L'AFRIQUE INSULAIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cap Verde is some dust of islands : "Sotavento" (leeward island), Brava, Fogo, Santiago, Maio, Boa Vista, Sal ou "Barlavento" (winward island) Sao Nicolau, Santa Luzia, Sao Vicente et Santo Antao.
		The island has a volcanic origin and it erects its indented crests above the lush " ribeiras " (or valleys) where you find sugar cane, coffee trees, corn and sweet potatoes.
		Transfer to Santa Maria in the South of the island.
	www.zig-zag.tm.fr /Anglais/Afrique/CAP-VERTL-AFRIQUE-INSULAIRE.html (576 words)

	Read about Cape Verde at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Cape Verde and learn about Cape Verde here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1456, and the islands were thus made part of the Portuguese empire.
		Africa, Cape Verde became an important port, and was a major center of the slave trade.
		In 1975, the islands achieved independence, partially due to the efforts of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Cape_Verde (790 words)

	Cape Verde explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The previously-uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century; they subsequently became a trading center for African slaves.
		The main islands are: Image:CapeVerde.png Santo Antão São Vicente Santa Luzia São Nicolau Sal Boavista Maio Santiago Fogo Brava Of these, only Santa Luzia is unhabbited.
		An active volcano exists on one of the islands, Fogo.
	www.wordspider.net /ca/cape-verde.html (1057 words)

	Cape Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Christopher Columbus had stopped in the Islands before his discovery of the 'New World' and Cabral had discovered Brasil after leaving the port of Sao Nicolau Island.
		The first inhabitants of the Islands were Portuguese, Spanish, Italians and Africans from Guinea Bissau and Senegal.
		The Islands population grew during the triangle slave trade and European exploitation of the Americas.
	www.cvsa.neu.edu /capeverde.htm (505 words)

	Sea and Activities
		The islands all have their own unique variety of bird life, with special bird breeds associated with certain islands.
		The island of Sao Nicolau is the most popular for deep sea fishing.
		Each of the islands offer a variety of unique locations and trekking difficulties, although all the islands offer breathtaking views and opportunities for bird watching and geological studies along the way.
	members.tripod.com /cvfaith/saa.html (1644 words)

	CaboVerdeOnline.com - Antonio island by Marcello Balla
		These islands were renamed later as Sao Tiago, Fogo, Boa Vista, Sal and Maio, the names by which they are known today.
		In the book's introduction, he says that in order to understand the history of the expansion of the western civilization, one must first recognize the history of Cape Verde, a sea base, apparently fostering an extreme example of the European civilization in the middle of the ocean.
		This archipelago of 10 islands was obligated to supply international aid to various continents while reinforcing western values in these areas.
	www.caboverdeonline.com /contents/my_community/2003/05/05/mb051903.asp (658 words)

	Holidays in Cape Verde
		The archipelago is made up of 10 islands and 8 isles of volcanic origin.
		Praia, located on Santiago Island, is Cape Verde's largest city, commercial center and port that ships coffee, sugar cane, and tropical fruits.
		Cape Verde's dry, tropical island environment and its role in Portugal's 15th-century colonizations have shaped its cooking traditions.
	www.reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/africa/capeverde/capeverde.html (1470 words)

	OSAC - Praia, Cape Verde: 2005 Crime and Safety Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Owing to its geographical isolation, strong historical ties to the United States and a large Americo-Cape Verdean population resident in the United States, there is little anti-American sentiment and no known indigenous terrorist threat to visiting or resident Americans.
		Most crimes are burglaries and pickpocketing or purse-snatching by groups of youths who are immune from criminal sanction, by national law and practice, until the age of 16.
		The island of Fogo is an active volcano that has erupted as recently as 1995.
	www.ds-osac.org /Reports/report.cfm?contentID=23938 (666 words)

	ZUJI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The capital is a picturesque little town on the north-east coast of the main island.
		The island is very beautiful, and full of the oddly weathered remnants of extinct volcanoes that look like huge pillars, some of which rise 600m (196ft) straight up out of the jungle.
		Trinidade is a pleasant town in the island's interior, and you can visit the waterfall Cascadas de São Nicolau nearby.
	www.zuji.com /dest/guide/0,1277,NMSNAU\|15530\|4090\|1,00.html (533 words)

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