Pedra de Lume

Pedra de Lume
Coordinates: 16°45′47″N 22°53′42″W / 16.763°N 22.895°W / 16.763; -22.895Coordinates: 16°45′47″N 22°53′42″W / 16.763°N 22.895°W / 16.763; -22.895
Country Cape Verde
Island Sal
Municipality Sal
Civil parish Nossa Senhora das Dores
Population (2010)[1]
 • Total 329

Pedra de Lume (also Pedra do Lume,[2][source needs translation] Cape Verde Creole: Pedra di Lumi) is a village in the northeastern part of the island of Sal, Cape Verde. The village is situated on the east coast, about 5 km east of the island capital Espargos. Pedra de Lume has been famous for its salterns[2] which began around the 18th century.

The crater lake

The Pedra de Lume crater is around 500 m in radius and is an extinct volcano. The area features salt evaporation ponds built over a natural salt lake that formed through infiltration of water from the sea, since the base of the crater is below the sea level. The salt extraction is currently inactive.

References

  1. ↑ "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 17 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 José Joaquim Lopes de Lima, Francisco Maria Bordalo (1844). Ensaios sobre a statistica das possessões portuguezas na Africa occidental e oriental; na Asia occidental; na China, e na Oceania: escriptos de Ordem do Governo de sua Magestade Fidelissima a Senhora D. Maria II por José Joaquim Lopes de Lima ... Imprensa Nacional. p. 182. [...] e ha nellas egualmente muito sal, quer nas salinas naturaes da Ilha do Maio, ni de Pedra do Lume da Ilhn do Sal, o nas do Norte da Boa Vista, quer nas palinas artificiaes que ha nas mesmas Ilhas, a producção das quaes ao todo se calcula em 16 a 18$ moios, correspondentes a 48, e 54 mil da medida de Lisboa.

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