Editing São Vicente, Cape Verde (section)

== History ==
{{See also|Mindelo#History}}
[[File:Old postcard SaoVicente1.jpg|thumb|right|Mindelo in the early 20th century]]

São Vicente was discovered by the Portuguese discoverer [[Diogo Afonso]] on 22 January 1462 ([[Vincent of Saragossa|Saint Vincent]]'s Day).<ref name=dgt/>{{rp|17}} Due to its lack of water, the island was initially used only as a cattle pasture. When the Municipality of [[Santo Antão, Cape Verde|Santo Antão]] was established in 1732, the island of São Vicente was part of it.<ref>[http://www.portaldoconhecimento.gov.cv/bitstream/10961/1882/1/MONOGRAFIAAndreza.pdf Evolução histórica do concelho do Porto Novo], Andreza Costa Dias, 2006, p. 12</ref> At that time, it did not have permanent inhabitants. In 1793 the area of [[Porto Grande Bay]] was settled.<ref name=delgado>[https://dspace.uevora.pt/rdpc/bitstream/10174/21556/1/Mestrado-%20Fred%20Delgado%20-%20G%c3%a9nese%20e%20desenvolvimento%20da%20cidade%20do%20Mindelo....pdf Génese e desenvolvimento da cidade do Mindelo: a preservação de uma identidade], Fred Yanick Fonseca Delgado, 2016</ref>{{rp|34}} It was only in 1838, when a [[coal]] depot was established at Porto Grande Bay to supply ships on [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] routes, that the population started to grow rapidly. From the beginning of the 20th century the port of Mindelo lost its importance for transatlantic navigation. Causes for this were the shift from coal to oil as fuel for ships, the rise of competing ports like Dakar and the Canary Islands and the lack of investment in port infrastructure.<ref name=delgado/>{{rp|76–80}}