CAPE VERDE / CABO VERDE - KABU VERDI (Portuguese colony).
Portuguese sailors.
Portuguese nautical chart from around 1471.
First stamp in a set of 10, issued on 09.05.1952.
Face value: 5 Portuguese centavos.
Design: Rui Preto Pacheco (1922-1989).
Engraved and printed by Litografía Nacional, Porto.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 3,500,000 copies.
Size: 41 x 26 mm.
Catalogs
- Afinsa-Mundifil No. 266.
- Michel No. 280.
- Scott No. 277.
- StampWorld No. 275.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 346.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 269.
The Cape Verde archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Senegal, is made up of ten volcanic islands and has a land area of 4,033 km2 (1,557 sq mi). It was uninhabited until the 15th century, when Portuguese explorers discovered and colonized it: The first Portuguese settlers landed in 1462 on what is now Santiago Island, and founded the oldest European city in the tropics: Ribeira Grande (today Cidade Velha). The archipelago was a Portuguese colony until its independence, declared on January 20, 1973 (and recognized by Portugal on July 5, 1975). It was a major slave trading center until 1876, when slavery was abolished.
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