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Maderal

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

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São Vicente, Cape Verde

São Vicente , also Son Visent or Son Sent in Cape Verdean Creole, is one of the Barlavento islands of Cape Verde. It is located between the islands of Santo Antão and Santa Luzia, with the Canal de São Vicente separating it from Santo Antão.- Geography :The island is roughly rectangular in shape...

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São Vicente, Cape Verde

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| Distance from the island capital: || nearly 6 km ESE of Mindelo

Mindelo

For the parish in Portugal, see Mindelo, PortugalMindelo , is a port city in the northern part of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde. Mindelo is also the seat of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz, and this island's municipality...

Island

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São Vicente, Cape Verde

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São Vicente, Cape Verde

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Mindelo

Island

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São Vicente, Cape Verde

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São Vicente, Cape Verde

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Mindelo

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Madeiral (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC

ALUPEC

The Alfabeto Unificado para a Escrita do Caboverdiano , commonly known as ALUPEC, is the alphabet that was officially recognized by the Cape Verdean government to write Cape Verdean Creole.- Description :...

: Maderal), is a village located east-southeast of the island capital of Mindelo

Mindelo

in the island of Sao Vicente

São Vicente, Cape Verde

, Cape Verde

Cape Verde

The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

. The location is south of the heart of the island. Madeiral contains around 1,000 people and is slowly growing. The village is linked with the major road linking with Mindelo

Mindelo

and the western half of the island and Topim and the eastern portion of the island. Madeiral also serves a road linking with Mato Inglês and the northern part of the island and a remote road to the mountains of the south of the island.

Nearest Places

Mato Inglês, north
Topim, south (distance: about 5 km)
Mindelo
Mindelo
For the parish in Portugal, see Mindelo, PortugalMindelo , is a port city in the northern part of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde. Mindelo is also the seat of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz, and this island's municipality...

, west-northwest (distance: 5 km)

Geography

The area around Madeiral contains farmlands as well as forests and some grasslands to the east in the valley area. The farm size is very small, and they are irrigated, the size of the farm is only the equivalent to almost the basketball or a volleyball field. The valley area filled with larger farmlands covers the west, grasslands covers the eastern portion with a desert-like field and a desert with rocks and a few grasses and flowers on the mountain areas north and south of Madeiral along with two valleys, one in the north and another in the south, the southern portion is not vegetated due to that the soil is not used for farming. The residential area as well as its homes are mainly within the major road. A part of the houses were built in the late-20th century. The living standards are in the middle range as well as its income, one time, there were no money until the mid-20th century. The village is near the island's middle class. A part of the population are farmers and are based in agriculture where banana plantations, pineapple and other crops are common, the rest works in shops, ports and other businesses. Electricity as well as communications, other necessities and phone lines arrived between the mid to late 20th century.

Information

Madeiral offers panoramic views to the mountains including Monte Verde

Monte Verde

Monte Verde is an archaeological site in southern Chile, located in the northern Patagonia near Puerto Montt, Chile, which has been dated to 14,800 years BP . This dating adds to the evidence showing that settlement in the Americas pre-dates the Clovis culture by roughly 1000 years...

, two near Calhau and the hills of Mindelo, the island of Santo Antão can be seen to the west including a part of Monte Cara and parts of Madeiral can be seen from the central part of the island. Parts of Monte Cara and the western portion can be seen but the entire valley can be viewed. A part of the central, the eastern and the southern portions of the island can be seen as well as Monte Verde

Monte Verde, Cape Verde

Monte Verde is the tallest mountain in the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. The mountain is located east of the city of Mindelo, the island's main city...

Other

Madeiral has a school, a middle school, churches, shops, a basketball and a soccer field and a square (praça or prasa)

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