| Santa Bárbara | |
|---|---|
| Settlement | |
 Church | |
  Santa Bárbara | |
| Coordinates: 14°52′30″N24°41′06″W / 14.875°N 24.685°W Coordinates: 14°52′30″N24°41′06″W / 14.875°N 24.685°W | |
| Country | Cape Verde |
| Island | Brava |
| Municipality | Brava |
| Civil parish | São João Baptista |
| Elevation | 350 m (1,150 ft) |
| Population (2010) [1] | |
| • Total | 143 |
Santa Bárbara (Portuguese meaning Saint Barbara) is a village in the northeastern part of the island of Brava, Cape Verde. It is situated at 350 m elevation, close to the Atlantic coast. It is about 1 kilometer east of the island capital of Nova Sintra. To its southeast is the small village of Vinagre. Santa Bárbara can be reached by "Aluguer" buses.
Portuguese is a Western Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China. As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka; in the Indonesian island of Flores; in the Malacca state of Malaysia; and the ABC islands in the Caribbean where Papiamento is spoken, while Cape Verdean Creole is the most widely spoken Portuguese-based Creole. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation may be referred to as "Lusophone" in both English and Portuguese.
Saint Barbara, Feast Day December 4, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd century in Heliopolis Phoenicia, present-day Baalbek, Lebanon. There is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome's martyrology. Despite the legends detailing her story, the earliest references to her supposed 3rd century life do not appear until the 7th century, and veneration of her was common, especially in the East, from the 9th century.
Brava is an island in Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. At 62.5 km2 (24.1 sq mi), it is the smallest inhabited island of the Cape Verde archipelago, but at the same time the greenest. First settled in the early 16th century, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1680. For more than a century, its main industry was whaling, but the island economy is now primarily agricultural.
