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3 unusual facts about Santo Antão


Cruzinha

Cruzinha (Capeverdean Crioulo, (written in ALUPEC): Kruzinha) is a village in the north of the island of Santo Antão.

Santo Antão

Santo Antão, Cape Verde, the northwesternmost island in Cape Verde archipelago

Zaranha Beach

Zaranha Beach (also in the Capeverdean Crioulo forms of ALUPEC or ALUPEK, the Santo Antão and the São Vicente Crioulos: Praia de Santa Mónica) is a point beach covering the northern coastline of the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde.


Agriculture in Cape Verde

Only the islands of São Tiago, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Fogo and Santo Antão have conditions suitable for raising cash crops.

Luís Romano de Madeira Melo

Luís Romano de Madeira Melo (Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 10 June 1922 - Brasil, 22 January 2010) was a bilingual poet, novelist, and folklorist who has written in Portuguese and the Capeverdean Crioulo of Santo Antão.

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.

Santo Crucifixo

Santo Crucifixo is a parish that covers a part of the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the island of Santo Antão in southern Cape Verde.


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Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol

Unlike other leagues throughout the world in which is the second, third and fourth, the lowest is mainly the second division or secondary leagues and are split into ten leagues of which are played in the nine main islands, Santiago and Santo Antão is split into two, the North Zone and the South Zone, the tenth main island of Santa Luzia is uninhabited.

Renaissance architecture in Portugal

Manueline churches like that of Jerónimos Monastery anticipated the unification of inner space (see Hall Church) that would characterise Renaissance churches like the Mercy Church of Santarém (after 1559), the Santo Antão Church of Évora (1557–63) and the cathedrals of Leiria (after 1550) and Portalegre (after 1556).

Ribeira Grande

Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde, a municipality and its municipal seat on the island of Santo Antão