Sao Tome Island Vacations

Why not have a vacation in the great Atlanitc Ocean island of San Tome. It can be a super place to have vacations. You may require to get accommodation in the nation because you want to enjoy the culture, the weather of do do business deal over the oil or other industrial issues. You may want to look at the history of the area. You may want to buy, rent, sell, hire, loan, a cottage, or a condo, or a hotel room, or a condo, or a villa.

São Tomé Island, at 854 km², is the largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe and is home to about 133,600 or 96 per cent of the nation's population. This island and smaller nearby islets make up São Tomé Province, which is divided into six districts. The main island is located 2 km north of the equator. It is about 48 km long (North - South) by 32 km wide (east - west). It rises to 2,024 m at Pico de São Tomé and includes the capital city, São Tomé, on the northeast coast. The nearest city on mainland Africa is the port city of Port Gentil in Gabon located 240 km to the east.

The entire island of São Tomé is a massive shield volcano which rises from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, over 3,000 m below sea level. It formed along the Cameroon line, a linear rift zone extending from Cameroon southwest into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the lava erupted on São Tomé over the last million years has been basalt. The youngest dated rock on the island is about 100,000 years old, but numerous more recent cinder cones are found on the southeast side of the island.

Towns and villages

Villages on the island include:

Agua-Coco, Agua Ize, Alice, Alto Douro, Andrade, Bela Vista, Blublu, Bom Successo, Buenos Aires, Dona Augusta, Dona Eugenia, Enjale, Formiga, General Fonseco, Graça, Granja, Guadalupe , Guegue Norte, Henrique, Java, Lemos, Mbombo, Mbondi, Monte Café, Monte Herminios, Monte Rosa, Neves, Nova Olinda, Nzumbi, Plato Café, Ponta Figo, Portinho, Porto Alegre, Preserverança, Quimpo, Ribeira Afonso, Santa Catarina, Santa Clotilde, Santa Cruz, Santa Josefina, Santana, Santo António, São João dos Angolares, São José, Saudade, Trindade , Ubabundo

São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Africa. It consists of two islands: São Tomé and Príncipe, located about 140 kilometres apart and about 250 and 225 kilometres, respectively, off the northwestern coast of Gabon. Both islands are part of an extinct volcanic mountain range. São Tomé, the sizable southern island, is situated just north of the equator. It was named in honor of Saint Thomas by Portuguese explorers who happened to arrive at the island on his feast day.

São Tomé and Príncipe is the second smallest African country in terms of population (the Seychelles being the smallest). It is the smallest country in the world that is not a former British overseas territory, a former United States trusteeship, or one of the European microstates. It is also the smallest Portuguese speaking country.

The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, situated in the equatorial Atlantic about 300 and 250 kilometers, respectively, off the northwest coast of Gabon, constitute Africa's smallest country. Both are part of the Cameroon volcanic mountain line, which also includes the islands of Annobón to the southwest, Bioko to the northeast (both part of Equatorial Guinea), and Mount Cameroon on the African west coast.

São Tomé is 50 kilometers long and 32 kilometers wide and the more mountainous of the two islands. Its peaks reach 2,024 meters. Príncipe is about 30 kilometers long and 6 kilometers wide. Swift streams radiating down the mountains through lush forest and cropland to the sea cross both islands.

At sea level, the climate is tropical. The rainy season runs from October to May.

The equator lies immediately south of São Tomé Island, passing through or near the islet named Ilhéu das Rolas.

7 Demographics groups are identifiable:

Mestiços, or mixed-blood, descendants of Portuguese colonists and African slaves brought to the islands during the early years of settlement from Benin, Gabon, and Congo (these people also are known as filhos da terra or "sons of the land");
Angolares, reputedly descendants of Angolan slaves who survived a 1540 shipwreck and now earn their livelihood fishing;
Forros, descendants of freed slaves when slavery was abolished;
Serviçais, contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde, living temporarily on the islands;
Tongas, children of serviçais born on the islands; and
Europeans, primarily Portuguese.
Asians, mostly Chinese minority, including Macanese people of mixed Portuguese and Chinese ancestry from Macau.

The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude ) is in the gulf. According to the International Hydrographic Organization, the Gulf's oceanic border is the rhumb line that runs from Cape Palmas in Liberia to Cape Lopez in Gabon

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