Bolama is the closest of the Bissagos Islands to the mainland of Guinea-Bissau. The island has a population of 6,024 (2009 census). It shares its name...
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Bolama is the main town of Bolama Island and the capital of the Bolama Region. Though once the capital of Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau), it has...
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Galinhas (category Bolama Region)
Ilha das Galinhas) is an island in the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau. Galinhas is located about 25 km southwest of Bolama town. The Canal de Bolama...
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populated island, Bubaque. The administrative capital, Bolama is situated on the island of Bolama. There is a high diversity of ecosystems: mangroves with...
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appointed, in 1913, to become port captain at Bolama in Portuguese Guinea. Her mother died of yellow fever in Bolama. Castro married António Ferro in 1922. As...
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Faial Island (redirect from Ilha do Faial)
António José de Ávila, 2nd Marquis of Ávila and Bolama (1842–1917) a military officer, politician, member of the nobility José de Almeida de Ávila (1844–1902)...
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Bissau-Guineans - José Câmnate na Bissign - Black Ladino - Bolama Island - Bolama Region - Bolama (town) - Bolanhas - Balana - Bulana - Bolola - Brames -...
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Orango National Park (redirect from Ilhas de Orango National Park)
The Orango National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional de Orango) is a protected area in Guinea-Bissau. It was established in December 2000. The park has...
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e São Pedro) Conceição e Estoi Montenegro Santa Bárbara de Nexe Faro is twinned with: Bolama, Guinea-Bissau Haikou, China Hayward, United States Huelva...
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Community of Portuguese Language Countries (redirect from Comunidade de Países de Língua Portuguesa)
Santo António do Príncipe (1993), Ilha de Moçambique (1994), Salvador (1995), Belo Horizonte (1998), Belém (1999), Bolama, Huambo, Porto Alegre and Mindelo...
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Guinea-Bissau (category Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
brief period in the 1790s, the British tried to establish a foothold on Bolama Island. Guinea-Bissau was among the first regions whose people engaged in...
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Vitorino Nemésio (O Corsário das Ilhas) and Raul Brandão (As ilhas Desconhecidas), Faial is a focus of the story. Manuel de Arriaga (1840-1917), the first...
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Name Area (ha) Archipel Bolama-Bijagós 1046950 Lagoa de Cufada 39098 Lagune de Wendu Tcham 14970.18 Parc Naturel des Mangroves du Fleuve Cacheu (PNTC)...
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orders in Portugal, and owing to the intervention of António de Ávila (later Duke of Ávila e Bolama) the convent was spared, even as other liberals wished to...
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Mozambique Suzdal, Russia Fafe Porto Seguro, Brazil Sens, France Faro Bolama, Guinea-Bissau Haikou, China Hayward, United States Huelva, Spain Maxixe...
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