Príncipe (Isla)

"La isla de Príncipe es la más pequeña de las dos islas principales de Santo Tomé y Príncipe. Tiene un área de 136 km² y una población de 5000 personas. Su altura máxima es el pico de Príncipe (948 m), localizado al sur de la isla, y que forma parte del área forestal del Parque Natural Obo. El norte y centro de la isla fueron antiguas plantaciones que ahora están siendo reforestadas. La isla abarca la provincia del mismo nombre, y que a su vez se subdivide únicamente en el distrito de Pagué. Ecológicamente, la isla forma parte de la ecorregión denominada selva de tierras bajas de Santo Tomé, Príncipe y Annobón. Los idiomas que se hablan en la isla son el portugués, el principense o Lunguyê y el forro. La isla tiene un pueblo, Santo António, y un aeropuerto, así como algunas pequeñas villas incluyendo Bela Vista, Bombom, Futuro, Neves Ferreira, Paciencia, Ponta Fonte, Ribeira Ize, San Antonto de Ureca, Vila Rosa y otras más, conectadas a la pequeña red de caminos. Rodean a la isla otros islotes como Ilhéu Bombom, Ilhéu Caroço, Tinhosa Grande y Tinhosa Pequena."

"Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of African in the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of 136 square kilometres (53 sq mi) and a population of approximately 5,000. The island is a heavily eroded volcano speculated to be over three million years old, surrounded by smaller islands including Ilheu Bom Bom, Ilhéu Caroço, Tinhosa Grande and Tinhosa Pequena. Part of the Cameroon Line archipelago, Príncipe rises in the south to 948 metres at Pico de Príncipe, in a thickly forested area forming part of the Obo National Park. The island was uninhabited when discovered by the Portuguese and named "Príncipe" (Prince's island) in honor of Afonso, Prince of Portugal, his father's favorite. Subsequently, the north and centre of the island were made into plantations, most of them formed by Portuguese colonialists using slave labor. These concentrated initially on producing sugar and later on cocoa, becoming the world's greatest cocoa producer. Since independence, these plantations have largely reverted to forest. Príncipe was the site where Einstein's Theory of Relativity was experimentally corroborated by Arthur Stanley Eddington and his team during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919."