Gata, Cape Verde

Gatas (also in the Capeverdean Crioulo forms of ALUPEC or ALUPEK, the Boa Vista and the São Vicente Crioulos ) is a village in the east-northeastern part of the island of Boa Vista. The village is around 30 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and northeast of Norte and are linked with an earthened road linking. The beach, the Praia das Gatas and its promontory lie to the northeast and is Norte's nearest beach, frequently unused.

Nearest places

*Norte, southwest

Geography

The village is situated in the dry desert climate and it receives little or no precipitation annually. Farmlands are nearly unavailable and are mainly of cattle and rarely some fruit productions and are nearly the size of the football field and its only has about tens of farms, many foodstuffs are received from the northern and the southern parts of the nation. The area are mainly desert and are covered with bushes to the hilly portion in the western part, its soil colour ranges from yellow-brown to red, the mountains are also to the west, a plateau covers the remainder of the area and rocky cliffs to the eastern shoreline of the Atlantic with some low hills in some areas.

Other information

The village is in the island's low class. Most of the houses are built with stone and concrete, several houses are built with either steel reinforced concrete or with stone and wood, a few homes are made up of mud and brick. A part of its population are farmers and are based in agriculture. The area received no income until the mi -20th century and is the island's poorest settlement. However, a part of the needy materials comes from the island capital, the island capital and the diaspora. But for other needs, electricity, communications and appliances are nearly unavailable in the area as well as phone lines but introduced since the late-20th century. A part of the necessities also comes from the island capital.

External links

*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=16.2&longitude=-22.71667&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=16.2&lons1=-22.71667&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=16.2,-22.71667 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=16.2&lon=-22.71667&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=16.2,-22.71667&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google] or [http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=16.2|-22.71667&style=h&lvl=15&v=1 Microsoft Virtual Earth] - image now available
*Coordinates: coord|16|12|0|N|22|43|0|W|type:city_region:CV

=See also=

*List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde