Mosteiros, Cape Verde

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Municipality of Mosteiros

Statistics
Island:	Fogo
Seat:	Mosteiros
Founded:	1991
Population:	9,449 (2005)
Elevation: Lowest: Centre: Highest:	Atlantic Ocean about 5 m (Praia) Pico do Antónia
Location:	14.91667/14°55' N lat. 23.51667/23°31' W long.
ISO 3166-2 code:	`CV-MO`
Website:	www.mosteiros.com

Mosteiros (Portuguese for "monasteries") is a municipality located in the northeastern part of the island of Fogo in Sotavento in southern Cape Verde in the southwestern Cape Verde and is the twenty-first largest community in Cape Verde. The municipal and the parish population is around 9,449. The seat of the municipality is Vila de Pedra Badejo. The municipality was created in 1991 out the old parish of São Filipe and was known by the island name, prior to 1991, only a parish.

Mosteiros are linked with a highway that almost encircles the whole island of São Filipe but it is unaccessible to the southeast by small narrow gravel stretch. Farmlands are within the coastline while the rocky landscape with a few bushes and grasslands of Mount Fogo lies to the southwest. Mosteiros contains the only forests (which are rare in Cape Verde) named Floresta de Monte Velha. The entire terrain are made up of historic lava flows from Mount Fogo which resulted from the last volcanic eruption in 1951.

Its main economy are agriculture in which 96% of its inhabitants are made up of rural population, tourism and businsses are the next industry but in very small numbers and the living standards and the income are very low making it the leastly developed island in all of Cape Verde. The main production is dedicated to coffee cultivation, which has Café do Fogo (Fogo Coffee). The town is a small centre between the mountain and the sea and has homes that are constructed from lava rocks. The recent closure of the local airport in favor of São Filipe, which brought a decline to the village. The illiteracy rate is very high and is one of the highest in Cape Verde. 31% of the population are over the age of 15. Very few homes do not have appliances or electricity, newspaper circulation or communications including television, radio or a computer, prior to the 20th century, Mosteiros didn't had appliances or electronics and do not own as much automobiles and household items. The population between 2001 and 2005 only added 12 to the 2001 population of 465 making it 477 which the main reason is lack of standard of living.

1 Historical population (Mosteiros - village)
2 Parishes
3 Settlements
4 Other
5 External links

[edit] Historical population (Mosteiros - village)

Year	Population	Change	Density
2000 (June 16, Census)	465	-	-
2005 (January 1, Computing)	477	-	-

[edit] Parishes

Nossa Senhora da Ajuda

[edit] Settlements

[edit] Other

Mosteiros contains a small school or collegiates (colegio) in which most of Cape Verde contains a few students, prior to the 20th century, Mosteiros did not have any schools, Mosteiros has a beach but no post office but contains a square (praça).