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Adelina da Costa
Adelina da Costa
Adelina da Costa (aged 108) in March 2019.
Birth: 10 March 1910?
Portuguese Cape Verde (now Cape Verde)
Age: 114 years, 242 days?
Country: Cape VerdeCPV
Unvalidated

Adelina da Costa (born 10 March 1910) is a Cape Verdean supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She is currently the oldest known living person in Cape Verde.

Biography[]

Adelina da Costa was born in Cape Verde (then Portuguese Cape Verde) on 10 March 1910. She had only one child, whom she gave birth to at the age of 44.

In March 2020, she celebrated her 110th birthday and became a supercentenarian. At that time, she had six grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren. She is known as "Nha Leska".

On 7 April 2021 at the age of 111, she received her first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

She may have become the oldest known living person in Cape Verde, following the death of 111-year-old Maria Francisca Goraz on 24 July 2021.

Adelina da Costa currently lives in Praia, Cape Verde at the age of 114 years, 242 days.

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