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Assomada
KNOWLEDGE OF Assomada
Assomada is a city in the municipality of Santa Catarina in the interior of the island of Santiago of Sotavento in Cape Verde. The city of Assomada is home to 7,067 people. Assomada is linked with a highway linking south to Praia and north to Tarrafal and a road to São Lourenço dos Orgãos. Assomada is located 64 km N of Praia, W of São Lourenço dos Orgãos and S of Tarrafal. The mountains surround Assomada with rocks and some forests, farmlands and hills dominate the rest of the area around Assomada.
The city of Assomada is home to 14.2% of the previous area of the municipality of Santa Catarina which includes the today's separate Pico. Assomada are subdivided into 22 neighborhoods and the urban area is about 213 ha or 2.13 km². With an actual rhythm of an spacial expansion, in 2010, the urban size will grow to 550 ha or 5.5 km² and about 12,000 to 13,000 people throughout the municipality.
Assomada has an imprtant commercial pole and enjoys a peculiar atmosphere, in a compound of urban and fields. The centre of the city features a strong presence of Portuguese-style colonial buildings. The city continues its notable population growth since the independence of Cape Verde, a great part divides an influx of persons coming from the interior and other parts of the island in search for work.
The market of Assomada is one of the largest in the island of Santiago, with one enormous varieties of agricultural products and other things. To this in fact will be not to other
In cultural terms marks a special museum, the Museu da Tabanka or Tabanca. The building was buily by the Repartição da Fazenda e dos Correios which is considered a cultural and historic heritage site for its architectural tracings, the actual Assomada Cultural Centre is located in the heart of the city. The Museu da Tabanka organizes temporary expos and diverse spectacles, looking and provides its cultural life in the municipality of Santa Catarina and the interior of the island of Santiago. The museum features a valuable estates of writing and drawing documentations under tabanka. a original local parade in which the traditional local figures are ridicularized.
The city of Assomada is home to 14.2% of the previous area of the municipality of Santa Catarina which includes the today's separate Pico. Assomada are subdivided into 22 neighborhoods and the urban area is about 213 ha or 2.13 km². With an actual rhythm of an spacial expansion, in 2010, the urban size will grow to 550 ha or 5.5 km² and about 12,000 to 13,000 people throughout the municipality.
Assomada has an imprtant commercial pole and enjoys a peculiar atmosphere, in a compound of urban and fields. The centre of the city features a strong presence of Portuguese-style colonial buildings. The city continues its notable population growth since the independence of Cape Verde, a great part divides an influx of persons coming from the interior and other parts of the island in search for work.
The market of Assomada is one of the largest in the island of Santiago, with one enormous varieties of agricultural products and other things. To this in fact will be not to other
In cultural terms marks a special museum, the Museu da Tabanka or Tabanca. The building was buily by the Repartição da Fazenda e dos Correios which is considered a cultural and historic heritage site for its architectural tracings, the actual Assomada Cultural Centre is located in the heart of the city. The Museu da Tabanka organizes temporary expos and diverse spectacles, looking and provides its cultural life in the municipality of Santa Catarina and the interior of the island of Santiago. The museum features a valuable estates of writing and drawing documentations under tabanka. a original local parade in which the traditional local figures are ridicularized.
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