São Filipe, Cape Verde

São Filipe
Settlement
Square in São Filipe
São Filipe
Coordinates: 14°53′42″N 24°29′53″W / 14.895°N 24.498°W / 14.895; -24.498Coordinates: 14°53′42″N 24°29′53″W / 14.895°N 24.498°W / 14.895; -24.498
Country	Cape Verde
Island	Fogo
Municipality	São Filipe
Civil parish	Nossa Senhora da Conceição
Population (2010)
• Total	8,122

São Filipe (Portuguese for "Saint Philip", Cape Verdean Creole: San Filipi) is a town on the west coast of the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. It is the capital of the island, and the seat of the São Filipe Municipality. The island's airport, São Filipe Airport, is located on the southeastern edge of the town. The town's elevation is 20 meters and the area is slopey ranging up to 100 meters in the easternmost part. Two streams surround the town center.

São Filipe was founded in the 16th century and is considered to be the second oldest town in Cape Verde after Ribeira Grande, but a town charter was not granted before 1922. In 1655 São Filipe was destroyed by Flemish pirates.

Apart from Nossa Senhora da Conceição, the oldest Catholic church, there are a sightworthy chapel at Praça Alberto da Silva, a New Apostolic Church and two wards of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Praia da Bila, a black beach, is 40 m below the city center. It is not very clean, and on many days the sea is very rough.

The inhabitants of the city prefer the beach at the harbour Porto de Vale de Cavaleiros, about 4 km in the north of Sao Filipe. In spite of the harbour, the water is cleaner and the sea is not so rough. The most popular beach of the island is Ponta da Sallina in São Jorge.

Its climate is warmer than the higher parts of the island and the same as the lower parts of the country. It is a little humid than the upper areas. The average temperature is from 19 to 29 °C (66–84 °F), the highest is 29 °C in October and the lowest is 18.7 °C in February. Average rainfall is 272 millimeters, the highest is 121 mm in September and the lowest is without a single precipitation between the months of March and June.

The city has is stadium, it has the Estadio 5 de Julho which is used for football (soccer), a multisport complex named Simão Mendes used for basketball and volleyball games and a pavillion named Luzia Nunes.