Ribeira Brava is a municipality on the island of São Nicolau of the Barlavento group in Cape Verde

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Parishes

The municipality includes two parishes:

• Nossa Senhora da Lapa
• Nossa Senhora do Rosário

Settlements

• Agua das Patas
• Belém
• Cabeçalinho
• Cachaço
• Caleijão
• Campinho
• Campo
• Carriçal
• Carvoeiro
• Castilhano
• Covada
• Estância de Brás
• Fael
• Fajã de Baixo
• Fajã de Cima
• Fontainhas
  Fontainhas
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• Jalunga
• Juncalinho
  Juncalinho
  Juncalinho is village in the northeastern part of the island of São Nicolau. It is part of the municipality of Ribeira Brava...
  
  
• Pombas
• Preguiça
  Preguiça (São Nicolau), Cape Verde
  Preguiça is village in the southern part of the island of São Nicolau. It is part of the municipality of Ribeira Brava. It is linked with the road connecting north to Ribeira Brava...
  
  
• Queimada
  Queimada, Cape Verde
  Queimada is village in the northwestcentral part of the island of São Nicolau. It is part of the municipality of Ribeira Brava.-Geography:...
  
  
• Ribeira Brava
• Talho

History

It was created in 2005, when the older Municipality of São Nicolau was split in two, the southwestern part becoming the Municipality of Tarrafal de São Nicolau and the northeastern part becoming the Municipality of Ribeira Brava.

Demography

Population of Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde (municipality) (1940—2010)
1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
14846	10366	13866	16308	13572	13665	13661	7869

Persons

• Amândio Cabral (b. 1934), a Cape Verdean songwriter who currently lives in California
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