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Geography and Environment: Cape Verde

Includes online maps, links to other map collections, flags, climate, weather, natural resources.

Created and maintained by the
 African & Middle Eastern Division,
Collections and Services Directorate

The African Conservation Foundation from African websites.net (http://www.africanconservation.com/)
“The portal for the Conservation of Africa's Flora and Fauna... provides in-depth information from our project network as well as conservation databases, interactive knowledge base & discussion forums and many other resources.”

Comiteé Permanent Inter Etats de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS) (http://www.cilssnet.org/)
Works to combat desertification and drought. Member states are Burkino Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. Also of interest for Western Sahara.

Development Gateway Country Overview (http://www.developmentgateway.org/)
“The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty.” Search by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites and documents.

Dragoeira.Com (http://www.dragoeiro.com/)
Personal website of Jørgen Carling. I am a Norwegian human geographer, working at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), specializing in international migration and with a long-time personal and academic interest in Cape Verde. Dragoeiro is the Portuguese name of the dragon tree, which grows only on Cape Verde and a few other places in the world.

EnviroLink (http://www.envirolink.org/)
“The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.”

Global gazetteer (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/)
An online gazetteer searchable by country and then by place. Results give longitude, latitude, and altitude of each location.

International Weather From WeatherHub (http://www.weatherhub.com/global/)
An English language home page providing links to sites offering international weather information by city.

MSN Encarta (http://encarta.msn.com)
“Posts facts about this country's geography and history along with images, maps, and news updates.” Search e-library for periodical articles.

MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/)
General site for maps. Search by country and by city.

Maps.com
(http://www.maps.com/)
Commercial site, sells digital maps of such areas as Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bophuthatswana, the new provinces.

Omni Resources (http://www.omnimap.com)
Commercial site (Burlington, NC); sells wide variety of maps--city, geological, topographic, provincial, road maps, and street guides.

UT library online, Perry-Castan~eda (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html)
The University of Texas’ Perry Castaneda Library Map collection here offers a variety of historical, geological and political maps of many countries.

United Nations Cartographic Section
(http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm)
Available in English or French versions. Offers detailed maps of many countries.

United States. Energy Information Administration (EIA)--Country Analysis Briefs (CAB): Sub-Saharan Africa. (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/cabsaf.html)
Provides an overview of the energy situation for all countries that are of current interest to energy analysts and policy makers. Provides data on oil, natural gas, electricity, coal, synthetic fuels; export, consumption, exploration and production; includes economic, energy, and environmental overview; also gives information on various factors affecting the energy sector. Links to important U.S. government and worldwide sites. Country briefs for 2001 and 2002 provided for: Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Rep. of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Great Lakes, Horn, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan and the SADC countries.

United States. Energy Information Administration. Energy Data (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/contents.html)
Annual energy, energy balance and other energy-related data for the period 1980-2000; presented by fuel category; includes forecasts.

United States. Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
(http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/)
Website of one of the largest map repositories in the world.

Cape Verde Travel
(http://www.capeverdetravel.co.uk/)
Commercial site. Provides air itineraries, photographs, information for recreational and commercial travel.

World Species List-- Animals Plants Microbes
. (http://species.enviroweb.org/)
Includes endangered species.

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