Among the partners of the UNESCO Chair The Ocean’s Cultural Heritage are CHAM and IPC (Cape Verde) which defined as essential action the underwater archaeological site inventory of that archipelago. This action started in 2018 as part of the European project CONCHA, that aims to address the different ways that port cities developed around the Atlantic during the early modern era. CONCHA’s surveys were conducted on the island of Santiago, in Ribeira Grande anchorage, in São Francisco (17th century) and in Urânia shipwrecks (1809). The project included the underwater survey, a review of the documentation and of the archaeological materials, recovered from the sites, at the Museum of Archaeology in Praia. Dissemination and training activities were also carried out. This paper systematizes the results of these works.

The knowledge of cultural heritage in a specific region is a basic element for the development of actions and skills necessary to save and manage. The historic set of Cidade Velha, classified as a World Heritage Site, still preserves traces that allow its conservation. In this sense, a first approach to the Archaeological Map of Cidade Velha is presented, with the identification and inventory of all vestiges, within the protected area of the site, which encompasses the Ribeira Grande valley and the historic center, and represents mainly as primordial populated areas, and urban expansion in the 16th and 17th centuries. The vestiges identified are authentic testimonies of cultural diversity that characterize a historic trajectory of the Cidade Velha.

Among the partners of the UNESCO Chair The Ocean’s Cultural Heritage are CHAM and IPC (Cape Verde) which defined as essential action the underwater archaeological site inventory of that archipelago. This action started in 2018 as part of the European project CONCHA, that aims to address the different ways that port cities developed around the Atlantic during the early modern era. CONCHA’s surveys were conducted on the island of Santiago, in Ribeira Grande anchorage, in São Francisco (17th century) and in Urânia shipwrecks (1809). The project included the underwater survey, a review of the documentation and of the archaeological materials, recovered from the sites, at the Museum of Archaeology in Praia. Dissemination and training activities were also carried out. This paper systematizes the results of these works.

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