Pedra Badejo
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Pedra Badejo is a city located on the eastern coast of Santiago
in Cape Verde
. It is the seat of Santa Cruz municipality.
There are a lot of shops in Main Street and in the Market Place where a sightworthy monument of a local musician is to be seen. Many daytrippers from Praia visit the beach which is close to the center of the city. A former health center close to the beach was transformed into a hotel.
Pedra Badejo has at least five churches: The modern Catholic Church is in the new, upper part of the city, and the smaller New Apostolic Church
is in Main Street. A Presbyterian Church, a Nazarene Church, and a Baptist Church (meeting at the Baptist Theological Seminary facility at 53 Achada Fátima) also serve the community.
The city was called "Santiago Mayor" until 1975. This name is still common today.
The city is surrounded by irrigated land. An artificial lake (Barragem de Poilão) was laid out between the villages Poilão and Lavada dos Orgãos with a fill dam which was completed in 2006 . The reservoir has a capacity of 1.7 million cubic meters making the drip irrigation
of 64 ha of land corresponding to about 100 farms possible. The construction of the first concrete dam of Cape Verde was paid and planned by China. There is an information pavilion in the South of the artificial lake where some rare birds can be observed.
Twin City:
Leibnitz
in Austria
, since 1983.
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....
in 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...
. It is the seat of Santa Cruz municipality.
There are a lot of shops in Main Street and in the Market Place where a sightworthy monument of a local musician is to be seen. Many daytrippers from Praia visit the beach which is close to the center of the city. A former health center close to the beach was transformed into a hotel.
Pedra Badejo has at least five churches: The modern Catholic Church is in the new, upper part of the city, and the smaller New Apostolic Church
New Apostolic Church
The New Apostolic Church is a chiliastic church, converted to Protestantism as a free church from the Catholic Apostolic Church. The church has existed since 1879 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands...
is in Main Street. A Presbyterian Church, a Nazarene Church, and a Baptist Church (meeting at the Baptist Theological Seminary facility at 53 Achada Fátima) also serve the community.
The city was called "Santiago Mayor" until 1975. This name is still common today.
The city is surrounded by irrigated land. An artificial lake (Barragem de Poilão) was laid out between the villages Poilão and Lavada dos Orgãos with a fill dam which was completed in 2006 . The reservoir has a capacity of 1.7 million cubic meters making the drip irrigation
Drip irrigation
Drip irrigation, also known as trickle irrigation or microirrigation or localized irrigation , is an irrigation method which saves water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either onto the soil surface or directly onto the root zone, through a network of valves,...
of 64 ha of land corresponding to about 100 farms possible. The construction of the first concrete dam of Cape Verde was paid and planned by China. There is an information pavilion in the South of the artificial lake where some rare birds can be observed.
Twin City:
Leibnitz
Leibnitz
Leibnitz is a city in the Austrian state of Styria and at the 2001 census had a population of approximately 7.577 .It is located to the south of the city of Graz, between the Mur and Sulm rivers....
in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, since 1983.