| Ilhéu de Sal Rei Djeu d Sal Rei |
|
|---|---|
| Area: | approximately 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 (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC: Djeu d Sal Rei) 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 of volcanic origin.
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 kilometre from northwest to southeast and approximately 600 metres 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
The islet can definitely be seen from the western part of Boa Vista including the Praia da 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.
|
|||||||||||||