Ribeira Julião

Ribeira Julião (Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente: Rbera Jilion) is a village located in the central part of the island of Sao Vicente, Cape Verde. Its 2010 population was 611 for the village. It is situated in the hills southeast of the island capital Mindelo, approximately 6 km southeast of the city centre and is connected with the road linking Mindelo and Calhau along with the east of the island and an unpaved road to Monte Verde and the north of the island and is named after its nearby stream Ribeira de Julião. Localities include Ribeira de Julião and Aldeia de Médio or Aldeia Central, the middle of the island (km 6, the Northwestern area).

The population has been growing since the 1980s and the 1990s. The buildings are concentrated in the western and the southern parts, the center is to the west, the rest along with farmlands and plantations are sporadically located within the stream, the main road and the foot of the mountains, several forests are within the stream, the rest of the area composes of grasslands.

It is the home of the School of Maritime Sciences which belongs to the University of Cape Verde since 2006, until 2008 it was known as ISCEMAR (Instituto Superior de Engenharia e Ciências do Mar, High Institute of Engineering and Maritime Sciences). It signals the entity responsible for the national domain .cv, Cape Verde for the Internet.