Santa Cruz
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Island:	Santiago
Seat:	Assomada
Area:	150 km²
Population:	32,965 (2001)
Population density:	about 219/km²
Elevation: Lowest: Centre: Highest:	Atlantic Ocean about 10 m (Pedro Badejo) Pico do Antónia
ISO 3166-2 code:	CV-SC
Website:	www.gtm-santiago.cv/santacruz_2.htm

Santa Cruz is a municipality located in the eastern part of the island of Santiago in Sotavento in southern Cape Verde and is ranked fourth in Cape Verde. The municipal and the parish population is around 32,965, the area is 150 km² and the density is about 205/km². The seat of the municipality is Vila de Pedra Badejo. The municipality was created in 1971 out the old parish of Praia and covers about 14% of the total population of the island of Santiago. Santa Cruz is located about 40 km NNW of Cape Verde's capital Praia, SE of Tarrafal and E of Assomada. Santiago is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nations population. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... Santiago is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nations population. ... The Sotavento archipelago (literally, the Leeward), is the southern island group of Cape Verde. ... Aerial view of Praia Praia, population 61,644 (1990), is the capital of Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. ... Tarrafal is a municipality located in the northern part of the island of Santiago in Sotavento in southcentralCape Verde. ...

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Its main economy are agriculture in which Santa Catarina are made up of rural population, the main production includes hay bananas, papayas and coconuts, the soil is fertile and water is mainly abundent. However the living conditions forms a large part of the population moginf to the city of Praia as well as other islands of Sal and Boa Vista in search for better conditions of life and working conditions. The municipality has been by unemployment and illiteracy, the situation are minor. Species Hybrid origin; see text A banana is a tree-like plant (though strictly a herb) of the genus Musa in the family Musaceae, closely related to plantains. ... Binomial name Carica papaya L. The papaya, also known as mamao, tree melon, or pawpaw (not to be confused with the true pawpaw), is the fruit of the tree Carica papaya. ... Binomial name Cocos nucifera L. Also a song by Harry Nilsson The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera), is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). ... Aerial view of Praia Praia, population 61,644 (1990), is the capital of Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. ... Sal (Portuguese for salt -- from the mines at Pedra de Lume) is an island in the archipelago of Cape Verde, and the municipality of the same name. ... Boa Vista is a desert island in the Barlaventos archipelago of Cape Verde. ... Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California during the Great Depression. ... Literacy is the ability to use text to communicate across space and time. ...

About 1/3 of the population of Santa Cruz are in agriculture, cattle, forestry, commercial, civil works and public administration and have a secondary importance. Tourism will give the first steps in the near future, a greatest facility to be located around the city of Praia. A German group will plan to construct a port next to the old port of Pedra Badejo.

São Lourenço dos Órgãos is a town located in the mountains WSW of Pedro Badejo, it is linked with the road linking Assomada and Praia.

Santa Cruz is the native land of Orlando Pantera and Catchás, two of the names most head in music that the island of Santiago never knew.

Historical population (Pedra Badejo)

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Parish

In 2005, the municipality of São Lourenço dos Órgãos became part of Santa Cruz and became a parish. The municipality of Santa Cruz also includes a parish named Santiago Maior.

Other

Santa Cruz has a few schools or collegiates (colegio), a few lyceums (middle schools), a gymnasium (secondary schools), churches, beaches, ports, a post office and squares (praças). In the United States and elsewhere, a town square is an area in the middle of a traditional town consisting of a park or plaza and surrounded by small shops. ...

External links

• In Portuguese:
  • Homepage and Town Hall of Santa Catarina
  • ANMCV (Associação Nacional dos Municípios Cabo-Verdianos - National Association of the Capeverdean Municipalities)

São Miguel or Vila da Calheta de São Miguel (Portuguese meaning Saint Michael is a municipality located in the northeastern part of the island of Santiago in Sotavento in southcentralCape Verde. ... Santa Catarina (Portuguese meaning Saint Catherine) is a municipality located in the northwestern and the western parts of the island of Santiago in Sotavento in southcentralCape Verde. ... Aerial view of Praia Praia, population 61,644 (1990), is the capital of Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. ... São Domingos is the youngest and smallest of the Cape Verdean municipalities, having been been until recently a subset of the Praia concelho. ...