Povoação Velha

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Povoação Velha
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Povoação Velha
Coordinates: 16°02′17″N22°55′01″W / 16.038°N 22.917°W / 16.038; -22.917 Coordinates: 16°02′17″N22°55′01″W / 16.038°N 22.917°W / 16.038; -22.917
Country Cape Verde
Island Boa Vista
Municipality Boa Vista
Civil parish Santa Isabel
Elevation 62 m (203 ft)
Population (2010) [1]
 • Total 309
Postal code5111

Povoação Velha is a village in the southwestern part of the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde. [2] [3] The village is around 16 km south of the island capital Sal Rei.

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Geography

Praceta de Santo Antonio, in Povoacao Velha. Povoacao Velha 1.jpg
Praceta de Santo António, in Povoação Velha.

Povoação Velha is situated at the foot of the 357 m high Rocha Estância. [4] To its south is Ribeira Baixa which flows south to the Atlantic. The sandy beach Praia de Santa Mónica lies near the mouth of Ribeira Baixa. Landmarks include the Chapel of Santo António (Saint Anthony) built in 1800, [5] the church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição built in 1828 [6] and Praceta de Santo António in the center. There is a health center in the village [7] and a youth center. [8]

Rocha Estância mountain in Cape Verde

Rocha Estância is a mountain in the southwestern part of the island Boa Vista in Cape Verde, east of the village of Povoação Velha. Its elevation is 357 meters. It is part of a protected area covering 253 ha. The Our Lady of Conception church is located at the western foot of the mountain.

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Praia de Santa Mónica

Praia de Santa Mónica is a sandy beach in the southwestern part of the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde. The nearest village is Povoação Velha, 5 km to the north. The beach is adjacent to the protected area Morro de Areia Nature Reserve, which is important for endemic birds and turtles. Praia de Santa Mónica is part of a tourism development zone.

History

The community is the oldest settlement in the island (hence the name, which means "old settlement"), dating back to the late 16th century. Until 1810, it was the island capital. [2] The 2010 census recorded 309 inhabitants. Hurricane Fred struck Boa Vista island in 2015, damaging 50 houses. [9] [10]

Hurricane Fred (2015) 2015 hurricane

Hurricane Fred was the easternmost Atlantic hurricane to form in the tropics, and the first to move through Cape Verde since 1892. The second hurricane and sixth named storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, Fred originated from a well-defined tropical wave over West Africa in late August 2015. Once offshore, the wave moved northwestward within a favorable tropospheric environment and strengthened into a tropical storm on August 30. The following day, Fred grew to a Category 1 hurricane with peak winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) as it approached Cape Verde. After passing Boa Vista and moving away from Santo Antão, it entered a phase of steady weakening, dropping below hurricane status by September 1. Fred then turned to the west-northwest, enduring increasingly hostile wind shear, but maintained its status as a tropical cyclone despite repeated forecasts of imminent dissipation. It fluctuated between minimal tropical storm and tropical depression strength through September 4–5. Curving sharply to the north, Fred's circulation pattern had diminished considerably by September 6, and the storm dissipated later that day.

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References

  1. ↑ "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 24 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 Patrimonio cultural, Municipality of Boa Vista
  3. ↑ Boa Vista Island at SDTIBM (in Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Protected areas in the island of Boa Vista - Municipality of Boa Vista, March 2013 (in Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Arquipélagos arquipelagos.pt, accessed on 3 February 2017
  6. ↑ Cape Verde: Island of Boa Vista at capeverde.com
  7. ↑ Ministério da Saúde de Cabo Verde, Relatório Estatístico, 2005, Cape Verdean Ministry of Health, 2006, accessed on 2 February 2017
  8. ↑ "«Boa Vista: CEJ da Povoação Velha reabriu este fim de semana - Primeiro diário caboverdiano em linha". A Semana (in Portuguese). 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  9. ↑ Fonseca, Sanny (2015-09-04). "Boa Vista: Hurricane Fred damaged around 50 houses in Povoação Velha". A Semana. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
  10. ↑ "Boa Vista: Recuperação de habitações de povoações velha danificadas pelo furacão Fred orçada em 3 mil contos" (Video) (in Portuguese). Praia, Cape Verde: Radiotelevisão Caboverdiana. 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
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