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3 unusual facts about Norte, Cape Verde


Deserto de Viana

The road linking Sal Rei and Norte crosses the southern half of the desert and is partially paved.

Norte

Norte, Cape Verde, a village in the east-northeastern part of the island of Boa Vista

Praia das Gatas

Its total length is approximately 10 km and it extends from the area east of Norte to the island's northeasternmost point.


1700 in piracy

July 18 - In the Cape Verde islands, Emanuel Wynn's pirate ship engages and escapes HMS Poole under Capt. John Cranby; this is the first recorded piratical use of the skull and crossbones flag.

Acamarachi

This is most likely the second highest crater lake in the world, and also the third highest lake of any kind in South America, behind the crater lake of Ojos del Salado and the small lagoon in the col between Tres Cruces Sur and Tres Cruces Norte.

Achadinha de Baixo

Achadinha do Baixo (from Achada and -inha meaning little, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Axtadinha du Baxu) is a village and a stream situated near the central part of Santiago Island in Cape Verde.

Aeronorte

Empresa de Transportes Aéreos Norte do Brasil Ltda – Aeronorte was a Brazilian airline founded in 1949 that operated in the north and northeast regions of Brazil.

Arco Norte

Plans are for the Arco Norte to be extended at its western end from the junction with the Mexico-Querétaro toll road to Atlacomulco and the junction with Mexican Federal Highway 126, a route to Guadalajara.

Assembly of the Guarani People – North Charagua

Assembly of the Guarani People – North Charagua (in Spanish: Asamblea del Pueblo Guarani - Charagua Norte), a progressive political grouping based amongst the Guarani people that contested the December 2004 municipal elections in Charagua, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña (also known as Diagonal Norte), is a main artery in the San Nicolás quarter of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

BR-101

Also the 404 km stretch between Natal in Rio Grande do Norte and Palmares-PE, is being widened (with about 70 km, cutting the metropolitan area of Recife, being already widened).

Cabeço dos Tarrafes

The town is located approximately 30 to 35 km E of the island capital of Sal Rei and around 3 km south of the village of Norte.

Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio

After acquiring a 10% stake in mining company Mineração Rio do Norte, CBA now holds bauxite mines in the South-East part of Parana State and has another mine in the municipality of Cataguases and Itamarati de Minas in Minas Gerais State.

Don Kikas

2005 saw Kikas in a new career phase as he managed to round up high profile musicians to record Viagem, a double-album in that presents a diverse range of styles from kizomba and zouk to the more traditional kazukuta and kilapanga and features singers such as Cape Verde's Tito Paris and Johnny Ramos as well as countryfellows Bonga and Deusa.

El Rito, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

It is the home of the Carson National Forest Service – El Rito Ranger District, the El Rito Public Library, the Las Clinicas del Norte, and a campus of Northern New Mexico College.

Fajãzinha, Cape Verde

Fajãzinha (also in Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK and Fogo Crioulo (Djarfogo)), is a village located approximately 30 km northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe, east of Mosteiros and north of Cova Figueira in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde and is one of the northernmost places on the island, Fajãzinha are linked with the road encircling the island.

Fonte Aleixo

Fonte Aleixo (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Fonti Alexu), is a village located approximately 20 km east of the island capital of Sao Filipe and southwest of Cova Figueira on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

Fundo das Figueiras

The village is around 30 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and south of Norte and are linked with the road linking with Rabil and Sal Rei and a remote road northeast to Gata and south to Cabeço do Tarafes.

Gei Zantzinger

He directed and produced films about the musics of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Lesotho, South Africa, and Brittany.

Ilhéu de Sal-Rei

Ilhéu de Sal Rei (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC: Djeu d Sal Rei) is an islet located 1 km west of Sal Rei and nearly 1 km southwest of its nearest point of Boa Vista Island (which includes Praia de Chaves) in Cape Verde.

Jason and Iyare

Ollie Twist is currently organizing and running Fibre with Kiss FM's Manny Norte, Steve Feelgood and Hasangi at the White House in Clapham Common on the first Wednesday of the month.

Joselito Agustin

Joselito Agustin (1976 – 16 June 2010), also known as Aksyon Lito, was a Filipino journalist who worked for the DZJC radio station in Baccara, Ilocos Norte, on the island of Luzon, Philippines.

Juazeiro do Norte

Juazeiro do Norte was initially a district of the nearby city Crato, until a young Padre Cícero Romão Batista decided to stay as a cleric in the village.

Kodigo Norte

Kodigo Norte (a satiric misspelling of the Spanish phrase "codigo norte", or "northern code") is a Rap music group formed in 2004 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

Linatella caudata

This species is distributed in European waters, the Western Atlantic, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific.

Mailó

Mailó da Graça da Cruz (born 10 January 1992 in São Vicente) simply Mailó, is a Cape Verdean footballer who plays for Leixões S.C. as a forward.

Miguel Dias

Miguel Brito dos Reis Dias (born April 1, 1968 in Santa Maria) is a retired boxer from The Netherlands, who was born on Cape Verde.

Monoplex nicobaricus

Regions where Monoplex nicobaricus is found include Aldabra, Brazil, Canaries, Cape Verde, Chagos, European waters, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Mascarene Basin and West Indies.

Monoplex tranquebaricus

This species is distributed in European waters, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, West Africa, Gabon, Angola and in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys.

Monte Grande, Cape Verde

Monte Grande (Portuguese meaning large mountain, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Monti Grandi), is a village located approximately six kilometers east of the island capital of Sao Filipe and southwest of Mosteiros in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

Norte, Cape Verde

The village is around 35 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and it is linked with the island's major road with Sal Rei and a remote road to Estância de Baixo and Morro Negro a few kilometres to the south.

Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Cape Verde

Nossa Senhora do Livramento (first part, Portuguese meaning Our Lady) is a parish that covers a part of the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the island of Santo Antão in southern Cape Verde.

PBU

Patriot Bible University, a fundamentalist Christian correspondence school located in Del Norte, Colorado

PVZ

Póvoa de Varzim, a Portuguese city in the Norte Region and sub-region of Greater Porto

Relva, Cape Verde

Relva (also in Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK and Fogo Crioulo (Djarfogo)), is a village located approximately 40 km east of the island capital of Sao Filipe, southeast of Mosteiros and north of Cova Figueira in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

Right of asylum

The first list, enacted in July 2005, included as "safe countries" Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius Island, India, Senegal, Mongolia, Georgia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Croatia.

Rosario Norte Station

From Rosario Norte the line continued to the northwest, crossing several provinces of Argentina to reach Tucumán.

San Manuel, Pangasinan

On September 12, 2012, gun-for-hire suspect Marcelino Cardinas Jr. (alias Jun Fabro, Barangay Botobot Norte, Balaoan, La Union) was arrested on the Case Unclosed twin murders of San Manuel’s Vice-Mayor Bonifacio Apilado (in Urdaneta City on June 20, 2007,)and Christopher Alfonso (an engineer, on Aug. 21, 2011).

Santa Cruz del Norte

This is the main home of the Havana Club rum distillery; all dark varieties being produced in Santa Cruz del Norte.

The municipality is divided into the consejos populares of Santa Cruz del Norte (the town proper) and the villages of Boca de Jaruco, Jibacoa, El Fraile, Arcos de Canasí, El Comino, La Sierra, Hershey (or Camilo Cienfuegos), Loma del Tanque, El Rubio and Paula.

Santo Amaro Abade

Santo Amaro Abade is a parish in the municipality of Tarrafal in the island of Santiago in southern Cape Verde.

São Filipe, Cape Verde

São Filipe (Portuguese for "Saint Philip"), or San Filipi in Cape Verdean Creole, is the city that constitutes the seat of the São Filipe Municipality on the isle of Fogo, in Cape Verde.

Sinezona semicostata

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde

Skywave

In June and July 1923, Guglielmo Marconi's transmissions were completed during nights on 97 meters from Poldhu Wireless Station, Cornwall, to his yacht Ellette in the Cape Verde Islands.

Timeline of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season

AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Four forms 225 nautical miles (260 miles, 415 km) south-southeast of Praia, Cape Verde.

Tom Saintfiet

On 10 October, Zimbabwe played Cape Verde in Harare in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match, the game resulted in a 1-1 draw.

Toni Varela

Toni Santos Varela Monteiro (born 13 June 1986 in Santa Catarina, Cape Verde), simply known as Toni Varela, is a Cape Verdean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Levadiakos in the Superleague Greece.

Umuarama

The municipality was founded in 1955, and colonized by Companhia Melhoramentos Norte do Paraná, a company that settled an important number of cities in Northern Paraná.

Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas FC

ground = Estadio Universitario Unidad Deportiva NorteZacatecas, Zacatecas

Yataity del Norte

Yataity del Norte is a town and district in the San Pedro department of Paraguay, you can access this district by Route 8 "Dr. Blás Garay", like most people who were born and grew up on the side of the road, is a laborious community, which focuses on trade and agricultural production.


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