Preguiça, São Nicolau

Preguiça
Settlement
Preguiça
Coordinates: 16°33′43″N 24°16′52″W / 16.562°N 24.281°W / 16.562; -24.281Coordinates: 16°33′43″N 24°16′52″W / 16.562°N 24.281°W / 16.562; -24.281
Country Cape Verde
Island São Nicolau
Municipality Ribeira Brava
Civil parish Nossa Senhora do Rosário
Population (2010)[1]
 • Total 567

Preguiça is a settlement in the central part of the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It is situated on the south coast, 6 km south of Ribeira Brava. It served as the port of Ribeira Brava, after the older Porto de Lapa, 6 km to the northeast, had been abandoned in 1653 due to pirate attacks.[2] The settlement was mentioned as Paraghisi in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin.[3] In 1820 the Forte do Príncipe Real, now ruined, was built to protect the port.[4] Preguiça Airport is located 3 km north of the village.

Population history

  • 2000: 465
  • 2010: 567

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 24 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Inventário dos recursos turísticos do município de Ribeira Brava de São Nicolau, Direcção Geral do Turismo, p. 16-17
  3. ↑ Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1747). "Carte des Isles du Cap Verd = Kaart van de Eilanden van Kabo Verde" (in French).
  4. ↑ Recuperação do Forte da Preguiça, C. Amaro and V. Santos, IPPAR, 2002
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