Pombas, Cape Verde

Pombas, Cape Verde
Coordinates: 17°08′56″N 25°00′58″W / 17.149°N 25.016°WCoordinates: 17°08′56″N 25°00′58″W / 17.149°N 25.016°W
Country	Cape Verde
Island	Santo Antão
Municipality	Paul
Civil parish	Santo António das Pombas
Population (2010)[1]
• Total	1,295

Pombas (Cape Verdean Creole: Pónbas) is a town in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. It is the seat of the municipality Paul. It is situated on the coast, at the mouth of the Ribeira do Paul, 6 kilometres (4 miles) southeast of Ribeira Grande and 15.2 kilometres (9.4 miles) north of the island capital Porto Novo. Other distance is nearly 290 kilometres (180 miles) northwest of the capital, Praia. The village is named after the nearby slope feature Faj das Pombas and is near Ribeira do Paul.

Pombas Town Hall, built with colonial architecture

The village is on the road linking Ribeira Grande, Paul and Porto Novo via the easternmost point which opened in 2009. The urban center are made up of several colonial style buildings, the San António (Saint Anthony) church located above sea level

Once a town, the town was elevated to a city in 2010.^[2]

Demographics

The population grew between 1991 and 2005, recently most of the population especially rural either moved to Mindelo, some moved to Porto Novo or Praia.

• 1991: 1,161^[3]
• 2000: 1,802^[4]
• 2005: 1,818^[5]
• 2010: 1,295^[6]

See also

• List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde

References

1. "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 17 March 2014.
2. Elevation of Pombas Into a City, law 77/VII/2010, published in B. O., no. 32, Series I August 23, 2010 (Portuguese)
3. Cape Verdean INE census of June 23, 1991
4. Cape Verdean INE census of June 16, 2001
5. Estimate, highest recorded population reached
6. INE census of 2010

Further reading

• García, Jesús (2009) El mundo a tu aire: Cabo Verde. Edic. Gaesa, Madrid, ISBN 978-84-8023-685-0