IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v7y2015i1p648-667d44300.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Geoheritage at the Equator: Selected Geosites of São Tomé Island (Cameron Line, Central Africa)

Author

Listed:
  • Maria Helena Henriques

    (Department of Earth Sciences and Geosciences Centre, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (Polo II), Rua Sílvio Lima, 3030-790 Coimbra, Portugal)

  • Keynesménio Neto

    (Instituto Superior de Educação e Comunicação, University of São Tomé e Príncipe and Geosciences Centre, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Rua Padre Martinho Pinto da Rocha, No. 939, Caixa Postal No. 300, São Tomé e Príncipe, 3030-790 Coimbra, Portugal)

Abstract

This work presents, for the first time, an overview of the rich geodiversity outcropping in the São Tomé island, one of the two islands that make up the archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe, the second smallest state of Africa in area. Located at the equator, in the alignment known as the “Cameroon Volcanic Line”, this archipelago represents a privileged area for the comparative study between oceanic and continental alkaline volcanism, and therefore between the subcontinental and suboceanic mantle. Ten geosites of São Tomé island were selected, described and evaluated on the basis of their geoheritage value and using a qualitative system of classification, which integrates both the meaning attributed to the objects by scientific communities and the public understanding of such meanings related to its social use. The selected geosites display different heritage values (documental, scenic, symbolic, iconographic and indicial) potentially usable for different purposes, namely scientific and educational, but mostly tourism. Geotourism can play a key role in the promotion of sustainable development in the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, and the geosites here described are likely to ground a geo-itinerary on this “pearl” of the Cameron Line.

Suggested Citation

  • Maria Helena Henriques & Keynesménio Neto, 2015. "Geoheritage at the Equator: Selected Geosites of São Tomé Island (Cameron Line, Central Africa)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(1), pages 1-20, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:7:y:2015:i:1:p:648-667:d:44300
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/1/648/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/1/648/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Alexandre Oliveira Tavares & Maria Helena Henriques & Artur Domingos & Abel Bala, 2015. "Community Involvement in Geoconservation: A Conceptual Approach Based on the Geoheritage of South Angola," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(5), pages 1-26, April.
    2. Nazaruddin Dony Adriansyah, 2019. "Selected Geosites for Geoheritage, Geotourism, and Geoconservation in Songkhla Province, Southern Thailand," Quaestiones Geographicae, Sciendo, vol. 38(1), pages 161-177, March.
    3. Francesca Romana Lugeri & Piero Farabollini & Roberto Greco & Vittorio Amadio, 2015. "The Geological Characterization of Landscape in Major TV Series: A Suggested Approach to Involve the Public in the Geological Heritage Promotion," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(4), pages 1-20, April.
    4. Henriques, M.H. & Pena dos Reis, R. & Garcia, G.G. & João, P. & Marques, R.M. & Custódio, S., 2022. "Developing paleogeographic heritage concepts and ideas through the Upper Jurassic record of the Salgado and Consolação geosites (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal)," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:7:y:2015:i:1:p:648-667:d:44300. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.