Santa Bárbara, Cape Verde
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| Island
: || Brava
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| Municipality: || Brava
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 3 km east Vila Nova Sintra
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| Island
: || Brava
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| Municipality: || Brava
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 3 km east Vila Nova Sintra
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| Island
: || Brava
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| Municipality: || Brava
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 3 km east Vila Nova Sintra||
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Santa Bárbara (Portuguese
meaning Saint Barbara
, also in ALUPEC
or ALUPEK and Brava Crioulo
), is a village the island of Brava
, Cape Verde
. It is about 3 kilometers to the east of the island capital of Vila Nova Sintra. The village is linked by a narrow road to the island capital and to the harbour of Furna. Santa Bárbara can be reached by "Aluguer" busses.
There are a school, a small church, a sports ground and some small shops in the village. From the eastern part of Vila Nova Sintra there is a beautiful view of Santa Bárbara from a viewpoint shaped like the "Santa Maria", the ship of Christopher Columbus.
In former times, Santa Bárbara was famous for a mineral spring called Fonte do Vinagre in the southeast of the village. The water had an acid taste and was used for medical purposes and for the irrigation of the fields. A pool and a bathhouse which was built in the 19th century can still be seen. The spring ran dry at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
: || 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...
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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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| Distance from the island capital: || about 3 km east Vila Nova Sintra
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
: || 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...
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| Municipality: || 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...
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 3 km east Vila Nova Sintra
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
: || 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...
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| Municipality: || 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...
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 3 km east Vila Nova Sintra||
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| Area code: || -
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Santa Bárbara (Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
meaning Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara, , Feast Day December 4, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr....
, also in ALUPEC
ALUPEC
The Alfabeto Unificado para a Escrita do Caboverdiano , commonly known as ALUPEC, is the alphabet that was officially recognized by the Cape Verdean government to write Cape Verdean Creole.- Description :...
or ALUPEK and Brava Crioulo
Brava Crioulo language
Brava Creole is the name given to the variant of Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly in the Brava Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento Creoles branch. The speakers of this form of Capeverdean Creole are 8,000...
), is a village 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...
. It is about 3 kilometers to the east of the island capital of Vila Nova Sintra. The village is linked by a narrow road to the island capital and to the harbour of Furna. Santa Bárbara can be reached by "Aluguer" busses.
There are a school, a small church, a sports ground and some small shops in the village. From the eastern part of Vila Nova Sintra there is a beautiful view of Santa Bárbara from a viewpoint shaped like the "Santa Maria", the ship of Christopher Columbus.
In former times, Santa Bárbara was famous for a mineral spring called Fonte do Vinagre in the southeast of the village. The water had an acid taste and was used for medical purposes and for the irrigation of the fields. A pool and a bathhouse which was built in the 19th century can still be seen. The spring ran dry at the beginning of the 21st century.
Nearest settlements
- Furna, north
- Mato Grande, south
- Vila Nova Sintra, west