Cape+Verde

Overview: What I've learn about Cape Verde is that some islands are inhabited. They have very poor people there, and theres no upper-class and theres some middle-class. Cape Verde was taken over by the Portaguese and i find that interesting and i wonder does they actually speak spanish.

Statistics: There are about 430,000 people living there and about 83,00 people live in the capital.  media type="youtube" key="uJg3id5Y3KM" height="285" width="340"  Geography: Cape verde has 10 islands and 9 of those islands is unhabited.

 History: in 1462 the portaguese, the first english settlement in the tropics, it's used to be called cabo verde.With the slave trade decline, it started to vanished. It was made a country in 2007.

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The staple food of Cape Verde is corn. The main dish is call cachupa.This stew includes meat, beans, hominy or vegetables or anything thats avaible.1/3 of the people are farmer.


Government: They fought for their independance 1975. Its democratic country. They have mainly have little crime like robbery and stealing mostly. It usaully in Praia.  Religion: The Cape Verdeans are christians. The Priest for Cape Verde is Arlindo Gomes Furtado.

Culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yUfc57BEuw [] Social Problems: The majority of the cape verdeans are poor. They are in the middle class and doesnt have an uper class. Some poor cape verdeans that have clothes, its mainly from their relatives in american that send that to them. They take pride in their personal apperance.

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