Cape Verde

Best time of the year in Cape Verde

The Cape Verde is a vulcanic island consisting of ten islets off the northwest African coastline. The situation in this part of the Atlantic gives the area nice, hot wheather all year round. There is seldom a sunny days on Cape Verde. It has an avarage temperatures between 24°C and 30°C with less sunlight in sommer as it is rainy.

Avoiding or not the rains is the best way to get to Cape Verde. Fall and early in the year are arid with very little precipitation, which makes them the best season to travel to Cape Verde in sunshine and draught. Cape Verde's island was called "the Caribbean " because of its sandy shores and tropic climat.

Those who want to sunbathe in the Atlantic Ocean will not be dissapointed. All year round, the water is very gentle with maximum temperatures of 27°C in summers and minimum temperatures of 23°C in winters.

Map of Cape Verde / Geography of Cape Verde / Map of Cape Verde

Cape Verde consists of two small (volcanic) archipels about 400 kilometres off the west coastline of Africa. Originally deserted, these islets were first explored by the Phoenicians and later colonised and plundered by the Portuguese, beginning in the fifteenth cent. During the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the island became a notorious centre of trade for Africans and finally an important stop for trans-Atlantic shipping in the nineteenth cent.

To paralyze the increasing number of nationalists, Portugal turned Cape Verde from a settlement into an international state. Launched in 1956, the African Party for the Independent States of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) called for an improvement in economical, societal and politico-condition.

Uprisings against Portugal had developed into a 10,000 PAIGC soldiers' fight against 35,000 Portugese and Africans by 1961. Though the figures were not in their favour, the PAIGC succeeded in taking over most of Portugal's Guinea. On 5 July 1975, the island became independent and remains a political democratic entity, but since 2007 Cape Verde has been regarded as a development country and currently has 113,364 inhabitants.

The majority of tribal peoples are descendents of Africanslaves, and some still speaking Crioulo, a Creole-diacode. Unfortunately, the persistent dryness has plagued Cape Verde for many years and many of its inhabitants have migrated because of the daily shortage of humanity. Who speaks Cabo Verde?