Monte Cara
| Monte Cara | |
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Monte Cara from off Porto Grande in Mindelo | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 489 m (1,604 ft) |
| Prominence | 247 m (810 ft) [1] |
| Coordinates | 16°52′27″N 25°02′15″W / 16.87417°N 25.03750°WCoordinates: 16°52′27″N 25°02′15″W / 16.87417°N 25.03750°W |
| Geography | |
  Monte Cara northwestern São Vicente | |
Monte Cara is a mountain in the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. Its elevation is 489 m. It is situated 5 km west of the island capital Mindelo, and falls steeply to the Atlantic Ocean to its north. The town of Lazareto is in the eastern foot of the mountain, a barrack is to the north. The mountain is being the seven national natural wonders of Cape Verde. The mountain can be seen from the island of Santo Antão except for the lower areas of the north and much of the island except for the easternmost and the southern areas.
The Monte Cara brick quarry is in the southern part and several houses have been built on the southeastern foot.
Toponym
The name means "the visible mountain", its reference makes up a characteristic of the mountain that resembles a giant, one could be George Washington[2] the other could be Henry the Navigator.[3]
Culture
The mountains and its summit was featured in Cape Verdean culture along with Monte Verde and plays a role as the chief culture of Mindelo and the island. It was even mentioned in literature[4][5][6] by the composer Manuel de Novas and the artist-painter Luisa Queiros.
A disco bar in Lisbon, Portugal is named after, it is known as Casa de Cabo Verde,[7] it was made by Bana, the coladeira great. The song Monte Cara was featured in the album Voz d'Amor (2003)[8] by Cesária Évora
See also
Bibliography
- Germano Almeida, Estórias contadas: crónicas, Caminho, Lisbon, 1998, p. 126 ISBN 972-211220-1
- Germano Almeida, O mar na laginha: romance, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon, 2004, p. 204 ISBN 9789722116091
- Germano Almeida, De Monte Cara vê-se o mundo (2014)
- Luís Batalha and Jørgen Carling, Transnational Archipelago: Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora, Amsterdam University Press, 2008, p. 195 ISBN 9789053569948
- Monte Cara by Maria Helena Sato, in Francisco Fontes, Destino de bai. Antologia de poesia inédita caboverdiana, Saúde em Português, 2008, p. 272 ISBN 978-989-958556-0-7 (OCLC 551846775).
- Ricardo A. S. Ramalho, Building the Cape Verde Islands, Springer, 2011, p. 207 ISBN 9783642191022
- Henrique Teixeira de Sousa, Capitão-de-mar-e-terra (Capitan of the Sea and Land), Publicações Europa-América, 1984, p. 390
- "Iluminação do Monte Cara: Surpresa aquém das expectativas da ASA", A Semana, September 22, 2009.
References
- ↑ Parent peak is Monte Carrachiça (569 m), key col elevation is 242 m.
- ↑ Almeida (2004), p. 126
- ↑ Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Bulletin of the Geographic Society of Lisbon), vol. 48 and 49, 1930, p. 8.
- ↑ Sato (2008), p. 272
- ↑ Almeida (1998), p. 226
- ↑ Teixeira de Sousa (1984) p. 390
- ↑ Batalha and Carling p. 195
- ↑ "Voz d'Amor at AllMusic".
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