Terreiro Velho

Terreiro Velho
Settlement
Terreiro Velho
Location on Príncipe Island
Coordinates: 1°36′41″N 7°25′22″E / 1.6115°N 7.4227°E / 1.6115; 7.4227Coordinates: 1°36′41″N 7°25′22″E / 1.6115°N 7.4227°E / 1.6115; 7.4227
Country  São Tomé and Príncipe
Province Príncipe
District Pagué
Population (2008)
 • Total 79
Time zone UTC+0 (UTC)

Terreiro Velho is a village in the southeastern part of Príncipe Island in São Tomé and Príncipe. ts population is 79 (2008 est.),[1] Novo Estrela is located 3 km southeast of the island capital of Santo António and is connected with a dirt road linking via the bay. The settlement was first founded as a plantation.

Terreiro Velho is located southeast of Bela Vista and south of Nova Estrela, further south is Terreiro Nova, also known as Neves Ferreira.

Population history

Historical population
YearPop.±%
2001
(census) 		69—    
2008
(estimate) 		79+14.5%

About the village

Plantations formerly dominated the majority of a part of Terreiro Velho and its surrounding area, much of these are completely forested and likely that agriculture is expected to disappear from the area. Fishing remains to be the key industry of the village as well as agriculture as with many places on the island. It may be one of the poorest places in the nation before Neves Ferreira in the south.

In the mid-1990s, businessman (or entrepreneur) and an agricultural engineer Claudio Corallo who is now a university professor at USTP, bought an abandoned cocoa plantation for 120 hectares (over a square kilometer) in Terreiro Velho[2] (Old Third) on the island of Príncipe. He cultivated on that island and had produced a product with high quality which was considered the greatest chocolate on Earth,[3][4] controlled all the production process from the tree to the tablet.[2]

Nature

A butterfly subspecies, Acraea severina terreirovelhoensis was first described in the area[5] as well as Bematistes alcinoe racaji, Acraea pharsalus carmen[6], Theretra orpheus gauthieri and a butterfly species Eucosmocydia terreirana.[7]

Other fauna including other butterflies and insects as well as birds, frogs and small reptiles are founded in the area.

References

  1. ↑ Agostinho Miguel (2013-11-13). "Evolução da população São-Tomense por localidades, 2001/2007-08" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-06-09.
  2. 1 2 Paolini, Davide (21 March 2016). "Il cioccolato di Corallo" [The Chocolate from Corallo] (in Italian). Gastronauta. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "L´Éxpress de França diz que o Chocolate de Claudio Corallo é incomparável". Téla Nón (in Portuguese). 29 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Gonçalves, Luiz Roberto Mendes. "A busca pelo melhor chocolate do mundo" (in Portuguese). Gastronomia ItaliaOggi. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  5. ↑ Oremans, P. 2012: Contribution à l'etude de la biodiversité des iles du Golfe de Guinée: description d'une nouvelle espèce et d'une nouvelle sous-espèce d'Acraea de Sao Tome et Principe. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Saturnafrica, 11: 21–23.
  6. ↑ Pyrcz, T.W. 1991. Account of two expeditions to São Tomé and Principe islands, January - March & July - September 1990 including a description of new subspecies of Acraea pharsalus Ward and Bematistes alcinoe Felder. Lambillionea 91(4): 362-374
  7. ↑ Razowski, J.; Wojtusiak, J. 2014: Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) of the Afrotropical fauna: Accession 1. Polish journal of entomology, 83(3): 207-218
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