Cape Verde is a republic located in the Macaronesian region homonymous archipelago in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa. Islands prior to the desert, was discovered by Portuguese navigators in the fifteenth century and were colonized by them. It
became an independent state in 1975.
In 1455, the Venetian navigator Alvise da Ca'da mosto, located in the service of Portugal, Cape Verde Islands discovered previously uninhabited. In 1460, the Portuguese archipelago based in one of the first European colonies overseas. By tradition, the islands
have maintained close ties with Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau contemporary) on the west coast of Africa.
