Achadinha de Baixo

Achadinha de Baixo is a neighborhood in the northern part of the city of Praia, Cape Verde.

Geography

It is bounded with Craveiro Lopes in the south, Fazenda in the east, Eugênio Lima in the west and a river, the Ribeira da Trindade separaing Calabaceira in the north.

Housing developments occurred in around the 1950s. The neighborhood has houses without any architecture and there were no paved or cobblestone streets except for the main ones, the southwestern part started to have its streets paved and now only half are paved or with cobblestone.

Sports clubs

• Celtic FC and Varanda^[1] are the football (soccer) clubs of the area. The small football (soccer) field is in Calabaceira but the club plays much of its matches at Estádio da Várzea in the south.

Notable person

One notable person was Lela Violão (1929-2009) who lived in the neighborhood for a part of his life.^[2]

References

1. "Equipas de Achadinha jogam torneio em homenagem ao Djack" [Achadinha's Teams Played a Tournament in Honor of Djack]. A Semana (in Portuguese). 25 November 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
2. "Caderno de Recenseamento 2008" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Municipality of Praia, post AJ, Achadinha de Baixo.