São Jorge dos Órgãos

São Jorge dos Órgãos
Coordinates: 15°03′00″N 23°36′40″W / 15.050°N 23.611°WCoordinates: 15°03′00″N 23°36′40″W / 15.050°N 23.611°W
Country	Cape Verde
Island	Santiago
Municipality	São Lourenço dos Órgãos
Civil parish	São Lourenço dos Órgãos
Population (2010)[1]
• Total	6

São Jorge dos Órgãos is a settlement in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. Its 2010 population was 6. It is situated 4 km southeast of Picos and its elevation is 319 meters.^[2] It is part of the São Lourenço dos Órgãos municipality.

It is home to the Jardim Botânico (Botanical Garden), the only one in Cape Verde.^[3] There is also an experimental station of the Instituto Nacional de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Agrário, an agricultural research institute funded by the Department of Rural Development.^[4] Also there is a secondary school or gymnasium named Carlos Alberto Gonçalves,^[5] along with the botanical garden forms a part of the University of Cape Verde.

the writer Tomé Varela da Silva was born in the village in 1950.^[6]

Gallery

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  Outside São Jorge

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  Enclosure of the botanical garden

References

1. "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 17 March 2014.
2. Furtado, Amândio; Negreiros, João (2010). "Modelação espacial da temperatura na ilha de Santiago, Cabo Verde, com o GeoStatistical Analyst" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Captar. p. 1.
3. Jardim Botânico de Cabo Verde
4. Ministério do Desenvolvimento Rural
5. "Escola Secundária "Carlos Alberto Gonçalves", em São Jorge dos Órgãos, promove conferência sobre as mudanças climáticas" [Carlos Alberto Gonçalves Secodary School Hosts a Conference on World Climate]. RTC (in Portuguese). 28 January 2010.
6. Gerald M. Moser, Changing Africa : the first literary generation of Independent Cape Verde, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1992, p. 17-18

Further reading

• Sabrina Requedaz et Laurent Delucchi, Cap-Vert (Cape Verde), Olizane, Geneva, 2011 (6th ed.), p. 126 ISBN 978-2-88086-394-4

External links

• "São Jorge dos Órgãos comemora o santo padroeiro". RTC (in Portuguese).