Ilhéu de Sal-Rei
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Ilhéu de Sal Rei Idjéu di Sal Rei |
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Area: | approximately 500 to 600 ha (0.5 to 0.6 km²) |
Population: | Uninhabited |
Elevation: | about 20 m |
Length: | approximately 1 km |
Width: | approximately 400 m |
Location: | Cape Verde, nearly 1 km west of the island of Boa Vista |
Range: | none |
Type: | stratovolcano |
Ilhéu de Sal Rei (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Idjéu di Sal Rei, São Vicente Crioulo: same name) is an islet located 1 km west of Sal Rei and nearly 1 km southwest of its nearest point of Boa Vista Island in Cape Verde. They are administratively a part of the municipality of Boa Vista. The islet is a volcanic seamount.
[edit] Geography
The islet contains dry grasslands and features bushes and grasslands, most of the island are filled with beach sands as well as rocky soils. Its length is nearly 1 km from northwest to southeast and approximately 600 m from southwest to northeast. The island also features a lighthouse and it sits by a rocky shoreline in the island's northwesternmost point. The small strait lies to the northeast. Its extremities of the island includes Ponta do Sul to the southeast and
[edit] Panorama
The islet can definitely be seen from the western part of Boa Vista including the Praia do Chave and the town of Sal Rei, it cannot be seen from Rabil since a part of the area blocks its view, the islet can also be seen from a mountain to the south of the island.
[edit] Nearest island
- Boa Vista, east
Islands of Cape Verde | |
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Island Groups | |
Barlavento | Sotavento | |
Islands | |
Boa Vista | Brava | Fogo | Maio | Sal | Santa Luzia | Santiago | Santo Antão | São Nicolau | São Vicente |
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Islets | |
Branco | Ilhéu Laja Branca | Ilhéu dos Passaros | Ilhéu Rabo de Junco | Razo | Ilhéu de Sal-Rei | Ilhéu Secos (Ilhéu de Cima | Ilhéu Grande) |