Porto Novo, Cape Verde (municipality)
municipality on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Porto Novo is a concelho (municipality) of Cape Verde. Situated in the southern part of the island of Santo Antão, it covers 72% of the island area (564.3 km2), and is home to 41% of its population. Its population at the 2010 census was 18,028. Its capital is the town Porto Novo. Its highest point, which is also the highest point of the entire island, is Tope de Coroa, elevation 1,979 metres (6,493 feet). The municipality of Porto Novo was created in 1962 when the parishes of São João Baptista and Santo André were separated from the older Municipality of Paul.
Subdivisions
The municipality consists of two freguesias (civil parishes):
Santo André
São João Baptista
Demography
Politics
Since 2016, the Movement for Democracy (MpD) is the ruling party of the municipality. The results of the latest elections, in 2016:
Twin towns – sister cities
Porto Novo is twinned with three municipalities in Portugal: Angra do Heroísmo, Estarreja and Tavira.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Porto Novo, Cape Verde (municipality)” as municipality on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as municipality on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1552897. Authority coordinates are 17.020, -25.065. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010, 1962 and 2016.
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