2003 in Cape Verde
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The following lists events that happened during 2003 in Cape Verde.
Incumbents
Events
- Hotels and villas established west of Rabil on Boa Vista Island
- Mindelo on São Vicente became the cultural capital of the Portuguese Speaking Countries
- Monte Graciosa on Santiago became a protected area
- February 24:
- Monte Gordo Natural Park on São Nicolau established
- Serra da Malagueta Natural Park on Santiago established, the first national park created on the island
- May 16: A Total lunar eclipse took place and was mainly visible, it started from around 11:30 and finished before sunrise[1]
- June 9: Instituto de Estudos Superiores Isidoro da Graça or IESIG established in Mindelo[2]
- September 19: Cape Verdean maritime delimitation treaty with Mauritania signed[3]
- December 9: the Barlavento Islands consisting of Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Sal and Boa Vista split from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde (also as Cape Verde) and became the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mindelo
Arts and entertainment
- Germano Almeida's book Cabo Verde: Viagem pela história das ilhas was released
- Simentera's album Tr'Adictional album was released
- Tcheka's album Argui released
- April/May: the 11th Praia da Gamboa music festival took place
- August: the 20th Baía das Gatas Music Festival took place
- September 23: Cesária Évora's 11th album Voz d'Amor was released
Sports
- AJAT'SN football (soccer) club competed at the regional championships for the first time
- Santiago Island League split in two, the North and the South Zones, the Santiago South Zone Cup replaced the Praia Cup.
- Scorpion Vermelho football (soccer) club established in Pedra Badejo on Santiago Island
- March 10 - Estádio Marcelo Leitão opened in the east of Espargos on the island of Sal
- May 17 - 2003 Cape Verdean Football Championships began[4]
- July 12 - the Knockout stage of the 2003 Football Championships began
- July 18 - Vulcânicos of Fogo celebrated its 50th anniversary
- August 2 - Académico do Aeroporto do Sal won their only national championship title
References
- ↑ "Lunar eclipse of May 2003". NASA. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ↑ IESIG website Archived 2010-04-14 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Charney, Jonathan I. et al. (2005). International Maritime Boundaries, pp. 3694–3707.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
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