Ribeira Grande (
Portuguese for "great stream") is a municipality on the island of
Santo Antão of the
Barlavento group in
Cape Verde. It covers one-third of the island and is home to two-thirds of the population. It was founded in
1990 when the island broke up into three municipalities and ended island-wide administration from Porto Novo. Including Santa Maria, it is one of the few municipalities where the seat is smaller than its largest city being
Ponta da Sol since the
1990s.
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