São Jorge (Santiago)

São Jorge
Settlement
Outside São Jorge
São Jorge
Coordinates: 15°03′11″N 23°36′18″W / 15.053°N 23.605°W / 15.053; -23.605Coordinates: 15°03′11″N 23°36′18″W / 15.053°N 23.605°W / 15.053; -23.605
Country Cape Verde
Island Santiago
Municipality São Lourenço dos Órgãos
Civil parish São Lourenço dos Órgãos
Elevation 319 m (1,047 ft)
Population (2010)[1]
 • Total 6

São Jorge[2] (also: São Jorge dos Órgãos) is a settlement in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is part of the São Lourenço dos Órgãos municipality. In 2010 its population was 6. It is situated 2.5 km southwest of João Teves and 4 km southeast of Picos. Its elevation is 319 meters.[3]

Enclosure of the botanical garden

It is home to the Jardim Botânico (Botanical Garden), the only one in Cape Verde.[4] There is also a research institute of the School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, part of the University of Cape Verde.[5]

Notable person

The writer Tomé Varela da Silva was born in the village in 1950.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 24 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Código Geográfico Nacional, Instituto Nacional de Estatística, code 78114, p. 89
  3. ↑ Furtado, Amândio; Negreiros, João (2010). "Modelação espacial da temperatura na ilha de Santiago, Cabo Verde, com o GeoStatistical Analyst" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Captar. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
  4. ↑ Jardim Botânico de Cabo Verde
  5. ↑ Escola de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais
  6. ↑ Gerald M. Moser, Changing Africa : the first literary generation of Independent Cape Verde, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1992, p. 17-18
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