Praia
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Braia (Portuguese pronunciation: "Strand ", in both Portugese and Cape Verde Creole), is the main town and the biggest town[ 1]:32] of Cape Verde, an Atlantic archipelago country situated just north of Senegal. Because of its position on a small platform, the center of the town is called one. It is a center for trade, governance and learning and a harbor that supplies coffees, sunflower, tobacco, cotton beet and fruit.
This is the headquarters of the Praia commune. 1772 card with Praia. From a geographical point of view, Praia can be described as a series of plateaux and their neighbouring valley. In general, these plateaux have the name of Achada (Achada de Santo António, Achada de São Filipe, Achada Eugénio Lima, achada Grande, Achadinha, etc. - this is a Portugese term for a vulcanic plateau), but the main one is commonly known as the Platform (in Portugese itself).
The Plateau was long regarded as the only town, since the other parts of the district were transformed into peripherally suburban areas, although they always had a strong link with the Plateau (passenger transport, exchange of goods and sevices, etc.). Therefore, only the Plateau had a relatively well-designed urbanisation with its own infrastructures.
It was only after gaining sovereignty that the plateau merged with the other parts of the town to form what is now the town of Praia. At this point the whole town had sufficient infrastructures. The Praia has a temperate dessert environment (Köppen: BWh) with a brief rainy period and a long, very distinct drying period.
Indeed, outside the August, September and October periods, little rains fall on Praia. Cities see an annual rainfall averaging about 210 millimeters (8.3 in). Praia, despite its dry weather, is rarely very warm or very cool on the island of Santiago due to its position by the sea.
Nossa Senhora da Graça Church - Cabo Verde is primarily Roman catholic. In 1832, when Edmund Roberts was visiting Praia in 1832, he noticed a total of about " nineteen twentieth " of the blacks in the area. Praia is home to the archipelago's first elementary modern college, the Escola Central (now Escola Grande).
It was the only elementary in Praia for a long while. In the early 1960', other elementary colleges began to be constructed in the districts around the Plateau and other parts of the town. It was also the first location in Cabo Verde with a Secondary school and the foundation of the Liceu Nacional in 1861.
Nevertheless, the Portugese government was not interested in the implementation of Cabo Verde's second level training and the schools collapsed; second level training then became the Seminary of Ribeira Brava on the São Nicolau Islands and later the Lycée in Mindelo. Praia received a return to higher schooling in 1960, first with an institution on 12 September Plaza and later in its own premises.
Following the extension of training in Cabo Verde in the 1990s, various educational facilities were built in Cabo Verde, and Praia currently (2016) has 12 colleges. Higher educations are provided by the Instituto Universitário de Educação, Universidade Intercontinental de Cabo Verde, Universidade de Santiago, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Juridícas and Sociais, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Económicas and Empresariais, Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde and University of Cape Verde.
In Praia you can also find the State Library and the State Archives Building or the ANCV. Kabo Verde's presidential palace. Praia's main business activity is in the third world. In addition to administrative and governmental (local and national) related work, there are wide trade and service sectors (health, educational, tourist, restaurants/hotel, governmental, etc.) and other liberally oriented work.
Praia is the capitol of nation´s and the business centre of the Cabo Verde Islands and one of the most important towns in the area. It has a 39% share of the country's GNP, which corresponds to a per person per annum of 4764 US dollars. The Cabo Verde Supreme Tribunal. The Praia has a two-lane motorway ring, the Circular da Praia (EN1-ST06), which is linked to the major northern (EN1-ST01) and western (EN1-ST05) routes of the Isle.
Avenida Grão Ducado de Luxemburgo (from the downtown to the west), Avenida Amílcar Cabral (in the plateau) and Avenida Cidade de Lisboa are the major streets within the town. Praia's town palace, a jewel of Portugese architecture. Among the sights in the historic downtown area are Albuquerque Square (named after the Colombian middle nineteenth centuries sovereign, Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque), the old town-hall, erected in the 1920' s, the presidential palace, erected at the end of the nineteenth centuries for the Portugese sovereign, and the Monumento de Diogo Gomes, renamed after the Portugese seafarer who found the Santiago Islands in 1460.
In Praia there are several sport team. Among the most beloved of these are Sportsing, Boavista, Travadores, Académica, Vitória and Desportivo; others are ADESBA with headquarters in Craveiro Lopes; Celtic with headquarters in Achadinha de Baixo; Tchadense with headquarters in Achada Santo Antônio; Delta and Eugênio Lima with headquarters in this district. ABC Praia, Bairro and Travadores are among the baseball club members.
Desportivo da Praia belongs to the volleyball club. And Praia is a partner of: Website of the City of Lisbon: UCCLA" (in Portuguese). Lisbon City. Cape Verde - Praia. Average conditions Praia, Cape Verde. Weatherkontor. de. Urban population with reference to the Instituto Nacional de Estatísticas Archive 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Engine....
ENCOLAS COM CURRÍCULO PORTUGUÊS EM CABO VERDE" (Archive). DSEEPE (Direção de Serviços de Ensino e Escolas Portuguesas no Estrangeiro) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education. "TACV Cabo Verde. Information about the port" (in Portuguese). The Condutores de la Vista satisfyfeitos com o terminale de Praia". Excuse me. I' m sorry, I'm late.
National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (in Portuguese). National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (in Portuguese). Municipal Camara de Lisboa (in Portuguese). Praia Sister Cities. Vikivoyage has a guidebook for Praia.