Feijoal, Fogo

Feijoal, Fogo
Coordinates: 15°01′45″N 24°19′44″W / 15.0292°N 24.329°W / 15.0292; -24.329Coordinates: 15°01′45″N 24°19′44″W / 15.0292°N 24.329°W / 15.0292; -24.329
Country Cape Verde
Island Fogo
Municipality Mosteiros
Civil parish Nossa Senhora da Ajuda
Elevation 535 m (1,755 ft)
Population (2010)[1]
 • Total 435

Feijoal is a village on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.[2] Nearby is the Mosteiros forest and Monte Velha, the third tallest summit on the island after the western caldeira of Chã das Caldeiras. Its 2010 census population was 435. Its elevation is 285 meters. Nearby places include Mosteiros and Cova Feijoal.

Notable festivals in the settlement includes Saint Anthony which is on June 13, Saint Peter on June 29.[3]

Its annual rainfall in 1988 was 664.1 mm.[4] 509 millimeters was fallen in around 1950.[5]

History

Around 73,000 years ago, the area was formed as part of the interior of the earlier Fogo Mountain, the eastern half collapsed and with some erosion and lava flow over the centuries, though not as much as in the east and some small volcanoes, it would form the current landscape. From about a kilometer west, it formed the line of where it collapsed, there, not much had collapsed in the area.

A part of the area around the village was burned by two forest fires, a large one in 2004 and a smaller one on April 23, 2011 burning 80 hectares, only 6 % of the forest perimeter.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 17 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Geography of the Municipality of Mosteiros (in Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Festivals of the municipality at the Mosteiros Municipality's website (in Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Lesourd, Michel (1996). État et société aux îles du Cap-Vert : alternatives pour un petit État insulair (in French). Paris: Karthala. p. 93. ISBN 2-86537-625-7.
  5. ↑ A Ilha de Fogo e as Suas Erupções (The Island of Fogo and its Eruptions), Lisbon, 1954
  6. ↑ "Fogo: Incêndio consumiu mais de 80 hectares do perímetro florestal de Monte Velha" [FIre Consumed About 80 Hectares of the Monte Velha Forest Perimeter]. SAPO CV (in Portuguese). 28 April 2011.
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