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unusual facts about Ribeira


Barbanza e Iria

The area covered by this geographical indication comprises the municipalities of Catoira, Valga, Pontecesures, Padrón, Dodro, Rianxo, Boiro, A Pobra do Caramiñal, Ribeira and some parts of Porto do Son and Lousame, located in the provinces of A Coruña and Pontevedra, in Galicia, Spain.


António de Noli

From 1462 to 1496, he founded and then was Captain of Ribeira Grande (modern-day Cidade Velha) at the southern end of Santiago Island.

Bourne's Heron

The only known breeding location of the heron is on Santiago Island, in the Ribeira Montagna village of Achada Banana, in a nesting colony in a pair of African mahogany trees.

Chã de Igreja

The village is around 40 km WSW of Ribeira Grande and is linked with the road with Cruzinha and Ribeira Grande and the rest of the island, the steep mountains makes it difficult to access the Alto Mira and boats mainy does not use to that area.

Francisco de Melo da Gama de Araújo e Azevedo

The Field Marshal Francisco de Melo da Gama de Araújo e Azevedo (May 16, 1773 - January 17, 1859 in Quinta da Garrida, Parish of St. João da Ribeira Ponte de Lima, Portugal) was a field marshall of the Portuguese Army and Governor of Diu in Portuguese India between March 21, 1821 and January 1840

Geothermal power in Portugal

In the Azores, five geothermal power plants exist on São Miguel, one near Pico Vermelho (in operation since 1981) and four binary cycle power plants in Ribeira Grande, which have together an installed capacity of 16 MWe.

Mahoganies at Banana, Ribeira Montanha

The Mahoganies at Banana, Ribeira Montanha, comprise two African mahogany trees on the island of Santiago in the Cape Verde archipelago, lying 600 km off the coast of north-west Africa in the Atlantic Ocean.

Manadas

Located 15 kilometres from the municipal seat of Velas, on the municipalities southern border with (Calheta); it is delimited by the São Jorge Channel (on the southern coast), the civil parish of Urzelina (along the Ribeira Large) and the ridge of Pico da Esperança (in the civil parish of Norte Grande.

Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde

Ribeira Brava is linked with roads to Tarrafal de São Nicolau on the southwestern part of the island, south to its nearest port Campo and to the eastern half of the island as well.

Ribeira da Cruz

Ribeira da Cruz is linked with a road linking with Porto Novo and the northeast of the island, it also serves a road to Tarrafal de Monte Trigo and the west of the island.

Ribeira Ilhéu

Ribeira Ilhéu is linked with the main road linking with São Filipe and Cova Figueira and another connecting Patim.

Ribeira Ilhéu (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC: Ribera Djeu), is a village located approximately 15 km northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe and west of Mosteiros on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.


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