Arquivo Histórico Nacional (Cape Verde)
The Arquivo Nacional de Cabo Verde or the National Archives of Cape Verde (short form: ANCV) is the national archive of Cape Verde. It is located in the capital city of Praia. It is on Avenida Combatentes da Liberdade da Patria in the subdivision of Gamboa also known as Cha das Areias. The archive building has a parking lot in the front.
Until the mid 20th century, before Cape Verde became independent, the building was once used as a customs house for the city of Praia and the island. Passengers that came from other countries and outside the Portuguese Empire entered the customs house to enter or leave the empire. In the 1960s the Port of Praia would be moved to Ponto de Visconde (now Porto de Porto) and the customs house, later building would be located there, later it would be for ships entering and leaving Cape Verde, many passengers entering and leaving the Portuguese Empire and later an independent Cape Verde would use another customs building at the airport in the northeast. The building went into disuse.
On the location of the former customs house, the national archives was created on December 31, 1988 under the decree number 128/88, which preserves and organizes different works and books in the national archives. In 1997, several digital projects had started. On December 9, 2012, the government of Cape Verde accepted a new structure by the Ministry of Culture adopted the name the "National Archives of Cape Verde", changed from the National Historic Archive Institute.
The building is located in the customs place. The ANCV conserves interests of documentations for historic studies of the national culture. It occupies about 6,000 lineal meters of books, works, documents, photos and others.
The building is of colonial architecture and was once a single story, the exterior walls are peacock blue with windows and doors with Portuguese and partly Indian architecture, once fully with columns on top, only the outer portions still remains today. The second story was expanded in the mid 20th century in the middle portion. Several Cape Verdean palms surround the east of the building, a tree once dominant around most of the plateau.
Coordinates: 14°54′53″N 23°30′41″W / 14.9146°N 23.5115°W
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