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Villa da Ribeira Brava, meaning "rough streams," is a town of colorful buildings in an interior valley of São Nicolau. It is the main city on the island. The village gets its name from rivers that runs through the valley, but also from the a city of the same name on Madeira, which shares many of the geological features (loacation in vallery, relatively fertile land, streams).

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Title
Villa da Ribeira Brava
Creator
Baxter, David
Date
1980
Other Identifiers
Local: MSS-0079-b10-f02-113
Keyword
tourism ; vallery ; river ; town ; village
Geographic Coverage
São Nicolau
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In
David Baxter papers: Cape Verde photographs
Note

rwin, Aisling and Wilson, Colum. Cape Verde Islands: The Bradt Travel Guide. (Guilford, 2001). pp. 239, 245

Lobban, Richard and Halter, Marilyn. The Cape Verde Islands. (Providence, 1987) pp.7-8

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