Ribeira Julião

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Ribeira Julião
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Coordinates: 16°51′20″N24°59′56″W / 16.8555°N 24.999°W / 16.8555; -24.999 Coordinates: 16°51′20″N24°59′56″W / 16.8555°N 24.999°W / 16.8555; -24.999
Country Cape Verde
Island São Vicente
Municipality São Vicente
Civil parish Nossa Senhora da Luz
Population (2010) [1]
 • Total 611

Ribeira Julião, commonly as Ribeira de Julião (Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente: Rbera Jilion) is a village located in the central part of the island of Sao Vicente, Cape Verde. Its 2010 population was 611 for the village, its estimate may be between 3,000 to 4,000 as of 2015 with recent housing and building developments occurring. It is situated in the hills southeast of the island capital Mindelo, approximately 6 km southeast of the city centre and is connected with the road linking Mindelo and Calhau along with the east of the island and an unpaved road to Monte Verde and the north of the island and is named after its nearby stream Ribeira de Julião. The growing population not made it a part of the Mindelo Urban Area but with other parts of the island growing developing to be a village of the São Vicente Metro Area.

São Vicente, Cape Verde island in Cape Verde

São Vicente is one of the Barlavento Islands, the northern group within the Cape Verde archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, off the west African coast. It is located between the islands of Santo Antão and Santa Luzia, with the Canal de São Vicente separating it from Santo Antão.

Cape Verde Country comprising ten islands off the Northwest coast of Africa

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Savage Isles. In ancient times these islands were referred to as "the Islands of the Blessed" or the "Fortunate Isles". Located 570 kilometres (350 mi) west of the Cape Verde Peninsula off the coast of Northwest Africa, the islands cover a combined area of slightly over 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi).

Mindelo Settlement in São Vicente, Cape Verde

Mindelo is a port city in the northern part of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde. Mindelo is also the seat of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz, and the municipality of São Vicente. The city is home to 93% of the entire island's population. Mindelo is known for its colourful and animated carnival celebrations, with roots in Portuguese traditions.

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The population has been growing since the 1980s and the 1990s. The buildings are concentrated in the western and the southern parts, the center is to the west, the rest along with farmlands and plantations are sporadically located within the stream, the main road and the foot of the mountains, several forests are within the stream, the rest of the area composes of grasslands. The center of town runs north to south and has a main street and two local north-south streets. Large homes dominates the north, campuses in the western part, moderate size homes in other parts and recently a new facility in the east built in 2014 and completed in 2016.

It has a church named Saint John the Baptist (São João Batista). Ribeira de Julião is best known for the festival of Saint John the Baptist celebrated each year on June 24 with traditional colá music.

Colá

Colá is a musical genre of Cape Verdean music

It is the home of the School of Maritime Sciences which belongs to the University of Cape Verde since 2006, until 2008 it was known as ISCEMAR (Instituto Superior de Engenharia e Ciências do Mar, High Institute of Engineering and Maritime Sciences). It signaled the entity responsible for the national domain .cv, Cape Verde for the Internet , since August 2009, it is now signaled by the National Communications Agency. Also it has the campuses of the University of Mindelo and other lesser universities, Uni. CV and the University of Mindelo de São Vicente may have built additional facilities and campuses in the east at the Phase II area of Chã de Matia.

The University of Cape Verde is the only public university of Cape Verde. The main campus is in Palmarejo, Praia, but there are also institutes in Mindelo, Assomada and São Jorge dos Órgãos. It has over 5000 students. A new campus for Uni-CV is under construction in Palmarejo, financed by the Chinese government. It should be completed by July 2020. It will have capacity for 4,890 students and 476 professors, with a library, dorms, cafeterias and sports facilities. It will have 61 class rooms, five auditoriums with a capacity of 150 seats, eight computer rooms, eight reading rooms and 34 laboratories.

.cv is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cape Verde. It is managed by the National Communications Agency. It was introduced on 21 October 1996 and initially it was managed by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia e Ciências do Mar (ISECMAR), later it became the School of Maritime Sciences, it became a campus of the University of Cape Verde until its redelegation in August 2009 by the current National Communications Agency.

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References

  1. ↑ "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 17 March 2014.
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