Expansion & Construction at Porto Grande

Creator

David Baxter

Slide ID

CV-83-005

_pkUnique ID

CV83005

Slide Date

1-1-1983

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Island

São Vicente

Identifier

CV83005

City / Village

Mindelo

Date

January 1983

Description

This 1983 photograph shows Funding was provided in the late 1970s to modernize Porto Grande, the largest port in the country. Here expansion is under way. On the horizon, the uninhabited islet, Ílhéu dos Passaros, marks the border between Mindelo Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

Keywords

bay, harbor, waterfront, port, construction, Porto Grande

Notes

Foy, Colm. Cape Verde: Politics, Economics and Society. (New York, 1988). pp. 118

Copyright

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Box

1

Folder

8

Image Dimensions

5291x3474

Software

VueScan

Date Time Scanned

May 2012

Color Space

RGB

File Size

2.0 MB

Document Type

Image

Recommended Citation

Baxter, David, "Expansion & Construction at Porto Grande" (1983). David Baxter papers: Cape Verde photographs. 564.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/baxter_gallery/564