Santo Tirso, Cape Verde

Santo Tirso (Capeverdean Crioulo, (written in ALUPEC): "Sónt’ Tirs’") is a village in the southern part of the island of Boa Vista. The village is around 30 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and around 20 km southeast of Rabil and it is linked with two remote roads, one linking Povoação Velha and Estância de Baixo and another linking to Rabil and the island capital of Sal Rei.

Nearest places

*Povoação Velha, west
*Estância de Baixo, east

Geography

The village is located in the least populate parts of the island, in which the southern part of 40% of the island is nearly over one person per km² in the area of three villages and settlements. 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 mostly desert, the flat desert plain which connects with another plain facing the other side of the island covers the area and the mountains to the northwest and the northeast. Its soil colour ranges from yellow-brown to red. The Monte Estancia, the island's tallest mountain can be seen to the northeast. The beach soil with some cliffy coastlines covers the shoreline.

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 mid to late-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 unavailable in the area as well as phone lines. A part of the necessities also comes from the island capital.

ee also

*List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde