Ponta do Sol, Cape Verde

Ponta do Sol (Portuguese for the "point of the sun") is a small fishing settlement situated in the northern part of the island municipality of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. The city is the 12th largest in Cape Verde and is the seat of Ribeira Grande municipality. The city is located about north of Porto Novo and northwest of Paul and Ribeira Grande and are linked with two main roads including one to Porto Novo. It sits near a cape of the same name and the mountains and the hills middle-class in Cape Verde.

The street system are grid runnind southwest to northeast and northwest to southeast. The urban area are within the harbor. Agriculture were the dominant industry until the 1990s and still a part of the population remains in agriculture. Businesses arrive along with the Agostinho Neto Airport located about 400 m northwest is the westernmost airport in Africa serving the islands of São Vicente and Santiago, the runway is only one kilometre. Four-storey hotels and apartments cover a stretch lies in the southern sprawl, restaurants, bars and a couple of more hotels are within its two main streets. Housing which led to a boom in population between 1990 and 2000 arrived in the 1990s and continues to this day. The bluffs and cliffs dominate the southwest.The city is growing with houses and tourist places.

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Ponta do Sol has a schools or collegiates, a middle school, a secondary school, churches, banks and a few squares praças