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Fajan di Água

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Brava, Cape Verde

Brava is an island in Cape Verde. It is the smallest inhabited island, but at the same time the greenest, of Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. First settled in the 1540s, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1675...

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Brava, Cape Verde

Brava is an island in Cape Verde. It is the smallest inhabited island, but at the same time the greenest, of Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. First settled in the 1540s, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1675...

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Fajan di Água

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Brava, Cape Verde

Brava is an island in Cape Verde. It is the smallest inhabited island, but at the same time the greenest, of Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. First settled in the 1540s, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1675...

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Brava, Cape Verde

Brava is an island in Cape Verde. It is the smallest inhabited island, but at the same time the greenest, of Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. First settled in the 1540s, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1675...

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Fajan di Água

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Brava, Cape Verde

Brava is an island in Cape Verde. It is the smallest inhabited island, but at the same time the greenest, of Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. First settled in the 1540s, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1675...

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Brava, Cape Verde

Brava is an island in Cape Verde. It is the smallest inhabited island, but at the same time the greenest, of Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. First settled in the 1540s, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1675...

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Fajã de Agua (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC

ALUPEC

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: Fajan di Água), is a village on the northwestern coast of the island of Brava

Brava, Cape Verde

Brava is an island in Cape Verde. It is the smallest inhabited island, but at the same time the greenest, of Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. First settled in the 1540s, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1675...

, Cape Verde

Cape Verde

The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

. Fishing and agriculture (maize, beans, bananas and papayas) are the most important sources of income.

History

In the 18th and 19th century, whaling was an important source of income for Brava. Many whaling ships from America landed in Fajã de Água. Fajã de Água used to be the most important harbour of Brava until 1843 when the present harbour of Furna

Furna

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 was founded.A small airport with a paved runway was inaugurated in Fajã de Água in 1992. It connected Brava with the nearby islands of Fogo

Fogo, Cape Verde

Fogo is an island in the Sotavento group of Cape Verde. It is the most prominent of the group, rising to nearly 3,000 m above sea level at Pico do Fogo.-Geography:...

 and Santiago

Santiago, Cape Verde

Santiago , or Santiagu in Cape Verdean Creole, is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation’s population. At the time of Darwin's voyage it was called St. Jago....

, but was closed because of frequent strong winds which make landing impossible.

Traffic connections

Fajã de Água is linked by a good road to the island's capital of Vila Nova Sintra which is about 8 km away to the East. The roads end near the former airport, about one kilometer in the South of the village. Fajã de Água is accesssible by the Aluguer busses several times a day, but there is no fixed schedule: An aluguer starts as soon as there are enough passengers. There is a beautiful walking track to the pilgrimage church of Nossa Senhora do Monte in the middle of the island.

Infrastructure

There are a motel, a guesthouse, a bar and some small shops in Fajã de Água. There are a school and a small church as well.

Beaches

The sea is very rough around Brava, and nearly everywhere the coast is steep and rocky. There is a natural swimming pool in the South of Fajã de Água about one kilometer from the village. A sign board shows the place which is near the road leading to the former airport. If the wind is not too strong and the waves are not too high, swimming is possible here. Further to the South there is the dark sandy beach Porto do Portete which is not easily accessible.

Sights

Opposite the small church at the Northern end of Main Street there is a sightworthy monument (Monumento aos Emigrantes) which was erected in 1993. It reminds on the sailing ship Matilde which left Fajã de Água for America on 21 August 1943. It was lost in the Atlantic Ocean and 51 persons lost their lives. Nearly each family in Fajã de Água lost one or even more relatives.