São Tomé
São Tomé (population 56,166 in 2005) is the caipital ceety o São Tomé an Príncipe an is bi far that naition's lairgest toun. Its name is Portuguese for "Saunt Thomas".
São Tomé | |
|---|---|
Ceety | |
 São Tomé palace | |
 Banner  Coat airms | |
  São Tomé Location on São Tomé Island | |
| Coordinates: 0°20′10″N 6°40′53″E / 0.33611°N 6.68139°E | |
| Kintra |  São Tomé an Príncipe |
| Province | São Tomé Province |
| Destrict | Água Grande |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17 km2 (7 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 56,166 |
| • Density | 180/km2 (500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (UTC) |
| Area code(s) | +239-11x-xxxx through 14x-xxxx |
History
eeditSão Tomé wis foondit bi Portugal in 1485. The Portuguese came tae São Tomé in sairch o land tae grow succar. The island wis uninhabitit afore the arrival o the Portuguese sometime aroond 1470. São Tomé wis richt on the equator an wet enough tae grow succar in wild abundance. Its proximity tae the African Kinrick o Kongo providit an eventual soorce o sclave laborers tae wirk the succar plantations. São Tomé is centred on a saxteent century cathedral. Anither early biggin is Fort São Sebastião, biggit in 1575 an nou the São Tomé Naitional Museum. In 1599, the ceety as well as the islands wur taken bi the Dutch for twa days an again in 1641 for a year. It wis the caipital o the Portuguese colony o São Tomé an Príncipe an, syne São Tomé an Príncipe's unthirldom in 1975, caipital o the sovereign naition.
Geografie an location
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São Tomé is locatit at 0°20′10″N 6°40′53″E / 0.33611°N 6.68139°ECoordinates: 0°20′10″N 6°40′53″E / 0.33611°N 6.68139°E. [1] Archived 2011-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
Important as a port, São Tomé is locatit on Ana Chaves Bay in the northeast o São Tomé Island, an Ilhéu das Cabras lies nearby affshore. São Tomé is locatit northeast o Trindade, sootheast o Guadalupe an northwest o Santana. It is linked tae thir touns bi various roadways, but especially bi the highway encircling the entire island o São Tomé. It is airtit tae Cape Verde bi a weekly ferry.
Featurs o the toun include the Presidential Palace, the Cathedral, an a cinema. The ceety is an aa home tae schuils, middle schuils, heich schuils, ane polytechnic, twa mercats, three radio stations, the public telly station TVSP, several clinics an hospitals, the kintra's main airport - São Tomé Internaitional Airport (wi direct regular scheduled flichts tae Angola, Gabon an Portugal as well as occasional domestic flichts tae Príncipe), an mony squares (praças). São Tomé an aa serves as the centre o the island's road an bus networks. The toun is weel kent for the Tchiloli play.
Population history
eedit| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1990 (Juin 23, Census) | 42,331 | — |
| 2000 (Juin 16, Census) | 49,997 | +18.1% |
| 2003 (Estimate) | 53,300 | +6.6% |
| 2005 (Januar 1, Estimate) | 56,166 | +5.4% |
Transport
eeditSão Tomé is served bi São Tomé International Airport (IATA: TMS, ICAO: FPST) wi regular flichts tae Europe an ither African kintras.
Climate
eeditSão Tomé featurs a tropical wet ad dry climate wi a relatively lengthy wet saison an a short dry saison. The wet saison runs frae October throu Mey while the dry saison covers the remainin fower month. São Tomé sees on average juist unner 1000 mm o precipitation per year. Temperaturs in the ceety are relatively constant, wi average heich temperaturs uisually aroond 30 °C an average law temperaturs aroond 22 °C.
| Climate data for São Tomé | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record heich °C (°F) | 32 (90) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
32 (90) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
32 (90) |
32 (90) |
32 (90) |
32 (90) |
33 (91) |
| Average heich °C (°F) | 30 (86) |
30 (86) |
31 (88) |
30 (86) |
29 (84) |
28 (82) |
28 (82) |
28 (82) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
| Average law °C (°F) | 23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
22 (72) |
21 (70) |
21 (70) |
21 (70) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
| Record law °C (°F) | 20 (68) |
20 (68) |
20 (68) |
20 (68) |
19 (66) |
19 (66) |
19 (66) |
19 (66) |
19 (66) |
19 (66) |
19 (66) |
19 (66) |
19 (66) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 81 (3.2) |
107 (4.2) |
150 (5.9) |
127 (5.0) |
135 (5.3) |
28 (1.1) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
23 (0.9) |
109 (4.3) |
117 (4.6) |
89 (3.5) |
966 (38.0) |
| Source: BBC Wather [1] | |||||||||||||
Notable fowk
eedit- José de Almada Negreiros, Futurist painter
References
eedit- ↑ "Average Conditions Sao Tome, Sao Tome Principe". BBC Weather. Archived frae the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
Freemit airtins
eedit| Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae São Tomé. |
- Sao Tome and Principe at Curlie
- Cairt an aerial photos:
- Street cairt: Street map from Mapquest, MapPoint Archived 2008-01-20 at the Wayback Machine or Google or Yahoo! Maps
- Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image nae yet available
- www.saotome.st - Facts aboot the kintra, hou tae get thare, whaur tae stay, what tae dae, images etc.
- Local traivel agency Navetur-Equatour - information&picturs http://www.navetur-equatour.st/ Archived 2017-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Coordinates: 0°20′10″N 6°40′53″E / 0.33611°N 6.68139°E