CAPE VERDE

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.

CAPE VERDE

CAPE VERDE / CABO VERDE - KABU VERDI (Portuguese colony).

Centenary of the birth of Admiral Gago Coutinho.
Map of the first flight Lisbon - Rio de Janeiro (1922).
Stamp issued on 17.02.1969.
Face value: 30 Portuguese escudos.
Printing: offset lithography.

Catalogues
- Afinsa Mundifil No. 339.
- Michel No. 358.
- Scott No. 355.
- StampWorld No. 353.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 419.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 357.

Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (Lisbon, February 17, 1869 - February 18, 1959) was an air navigator, historian and officer of the Portuguese Navy with the position of Admiral. As of 1898 he dedicated himself to establishing border delimitations in the Portuguese overseas territories, for which he made several flights. The most notable was the first air crossing of the South Atlantic with Sacadura Cabral (1881-1924): they left Lisbon on March 30, 1922 and, via Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, São Vicente Island (Cape Verde), Fernando de Naronha and the Brazilian towns Recife, Salvador de Bahia, Porto Seguro and Vitória, finally landed in Rio de Janeiro on June 17, after a 79-day journey. In the last years of his life, he devoted himself to the study of Portuguese discoveries and navigations, writing several works that he ended up compiling in his Náutica dos Descobrimentos.