There are regular bus services within the urban limits of the cities of Praia on Santiago Island and Mindelo on São Vicente island only.

Because of its excellent harbour, Mindelo ( on the island of São Vicente ) became an important commercial centre during the 19th century, mainly because the British used Cape Verde as a storage depot for coal which was bound for the Americas.

Born on the Cape island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law in Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo.

To assert the cause of the rightful Queen, his daughter Maria da Glória, Pedro sailed from Terceira in the Azores with an expeditionary force consisting of 60 vessels, 7500 men including the Count of Vila Flor, Alexandre Herculano, Almeida Garrett, Joaquim António de Aguiar, José Travassos Valdez and a volunteer British contingent under the command of Colonels George Lloyd Hodges and Charles Shaw and effected a landing at Mindelo on the shores north of Porto.

Sergio Frusoni ( also Sérgio Frusoni, August 10, 1901 in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente – May 29, 1975 in Lisbon ) was a poet and promoter of the Cape Verdean Creole language.

Ivone Aida Lopes Fernandes Ramos ( born July 9, 1926 in Santa Catarina on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde ) is a Cape Verdean writer who lives in Mindelo ( Cape Verde ).

He lived in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente.

By the following year, several Marienses joined the expeditionary force disembarking on the continent along Arnosa de Pampelido beach ( near Mindelo, Vila do Conde ) during one of the crucial battles of the Civil War.

He completed his secondary education in Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, and then traveled to Portugal to attend the University of Lisbon.

The ferry route linking with the port of Porto Novo on Santo Antão and Mindelo on São Vicente crosses the canal with the boat named Mar d ' Canal as well as shipping lines with Mindelo and other places around the world including from several African and Latin American ports and North American and European ports.

Mindelo ( Mindel ’ in Cape Verdean Creole ), is a port city in the northern part of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde.

Diglossia: Portuguese and Creole ; Mindelo, São Vicente Island, Cape Verde.

Among these groups was Mindelo, who fused São Toméan rhythms with rebita, an Angolan style, to form puxa.

Alliance Française in Mindelo, São Vicente Island, Cape Verde.

In 1947, he managed the O Café Sport in Mindelo, the main city of São Vicente, where he presented poems and anecdotes in Crioulo.

Mindelo Bay is a bay located northwest of the island of São Vicente.

The carnival of Mindelo, in the island of Sao Vicente is considered the most animated where a number of groups challenge each other for the yearly prize.

Mindelo is also the seat of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz, and this island's municipality.

Mindelo is a cosmopolitan city.

Mindelo is also considered as the cultural capital of Cape Verde.

Mindelo's deep-water port, Porto Grande, is connected to Mindelo Bay, an underwater volcanic crater, and is used for cruise ships and other commercial traffic.

There is a ferry boat named Mar d ' Canal that goes from Mindelo to Santo Antão and back twice a day, carrying up to 450 passengers and about a hundred cars and trucks.

According to 2010 data, Mindelo has a population of 70, 468 inhabitants ( 50, 000 in the mid-1990s ) and is the second largest city in Cape Verde after Praia.

The urban area of Mindelo is in the northern part.

Carlos Alberto Wahnon de Carvalho Veiga (; born October 21, 1949 in Mindelo ) is a Cape Verdean politician.

The lining is circular from north Mindelo to Lazareto in the south and jagged up to the points, another point which features a mountain is northwest of the downtown area and it features a beach north of the cape and another port.

The harbour area at Mindelo was developed by the British for this purpose.

In 1885, Mindelo was the switching station for the first Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.

The carnival of Cape Verde, especially of Mindelo, have witnessed in recent years considerable influences from Brazilian carnival traditions.

There was a coal station in Mindelo during the times of steam navigation by the British.

In 1912, Mindelo became an important cable station in the world.

Mindelo became the cultural capital of the Portuguese-speaking country / state along with the Lusophone capital in 2003.

Mindelo has schools, high schools, some parks, banks and a few squares praças.

Although a great amount of erosion has taken place, some craters still remain — in particular near the bay of Mindelo.

Peter, after abdicating the imperial crown of Brazil, placed himself at the head of the Liberal Army ( 1831 ) and from the Azores launched an invasion of northern Portugal, landing at Mindelo, near Oporto which he quickly occupied.

Freed for a US $ 60 million ransom ( the largest on record at that time ), the ordeal triggered the company headquarters ' relocation to São Paolo, Brazil, and contributed to the March 1976 coup.

Mountains higher than are found on Santiago, Fogo, Santo Antão, and São Nicolau.

There are smaller harbors, essentially single jetties at Tarrafal on São Nicolau, Sal Rei on Boa Vista, Vila do Maio ( Porto Inglês ) on Maio, São Filipe on Fogo and Furna on Brava.

CPTM has 93 stations with six lines, numbered starting on 7 ( the lines 1 to 6 belong to the São Paulo Metro ), with a total length of.

In Northeastern Brazil and among the diaspora of its population in other Brazilian regions, cuzcuz ( locally, in Rio de Janeiro, in São Paulo ), a steamed cake of couscous and corn flour ( a mixture called fubá, pronounced, said to be of African origin from the slave trade ), is a popular meal, served in many forms: With sugar and milk, with varied meats, with cheese and eggs, and so on.

Boy with a Top, c. 1735, oil on canvas, São Paulo Museum of Art

Examples of Chalcolithic cultures in Europe include Vila Nova de São Pedro and Los Millares on the Iberian Peninsula.

Ximenes was involved in all the major official monumental projects in Italy from the 1880s on and devoted his energies as from 1911 primarily to commissions for important public works in São Paulo, Kiev, New York and Buenos Aires.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda on 25 January 1576 as " São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda ", with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers.

On St. Laurence's Day in 1500, Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias landed on the island and christened it São Lourenço, but Polo's name was preferred and popularized on Renaissance maps.

" Mozambique " first described a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay, then the fort and town on that island, São Sebastião de Moçambique, and later extended to the whole of the Portuguese colonies on the east coast of Africa.