Santa Bárbara (Brava)
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 53 ′ N , 24 ° 42 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Cape Verde | ||
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Archipelago |
Ilhas de Sotavento | ||
| District | Brava | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CV-BR | ||
| height | 16 m | ||
| Residents | 143 (2010) | ||
Santa Bárbara is a small village in the east of the island of Brava , Cape Verde . It is located in the north of the island at an altitude of 16 meters above sea level and had 143 inhabitants in the 2010 census.
The town can be reached via a paved road from the island's capital, Vila Nova Sintra, about three kilometers away, with the irregular Aluguer buses that are typical of Cape Verde . The road leads east of Santa Bárbara steeply downhill in places to the port of Furna . Almost all of the residents of Santa Bárbara live from agriculture (especially maize), and some cattle (cows and goats) are also farmed. The village consists mainly of one-story houses with hipped roofs . A beautiful view of Santa Bárbara is offered from the eastern edge of Vila Nova Sintras, here a viewpoint in the form of a ship - the Santa Maria of Christopher Columbus - was created.
In the village there is a church, a school, a sports field and a few small shops for daily needs.
Santa Bárbara was previously known for a mineral spring called Fonte do Vinagre (English: 'vinegar spring'). The mineral spring with its sour-tasting water rises southeast of the village and was reached after a one-hour hike via a footpath; it was also used to irrigate the terraced fields. However, it dried up at the beginning of the 21st century. Today, in its place, next to a pool, you can see a bathhouse built in the 19th century, which used to be mainly used by the landowners in the area, the Morgados . In the 19th century, the island was also considered a spa area for the residents of the most densely populated Cape Verdean island of Santiago. As early as the mid-1970s, the spring's productivity had decreased significantly after trying in vain to increase the water supply by blasting it.
literature
- Susanne Lipps, Oliver Breda: Travel Atlas Cape Verde Islands . Ed .: Dumont. Dumont, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7701-5968-3 , Insel Brava, p. 153-156 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data on Santa Bárbara from Falling Rain Genomics, accessed on July 15, 2010.
- ↑ INE - CENSO 2010. ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Portal do Instituto Nacional de Estatística (website), Brava ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (XLS document).
- ^ Susanne Lipps: Cape Verde Islands. Ostfildern 2009, p. 273.
- ↑ Nuno Augusto: Cabo Verde - um mundo a descobrir. Lisbon 2009, p. 4.
- ^ K. David Patterson: Epidemics, Famines, and Population in the Cape Verde Islands, 1580-1900. In: The International Journal of African Historical Studies. Vol. 21, 1988, No. 2, pp. 291-313, doi : 10.2307 / 219938 , here p. 302.
- ^ Rolf Osang: Cape Verde Islands. Cologne 2001, p. 147.
