Villa da Ribeira Brava

Baxter, David

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Description

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).

Details

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

Type

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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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