Canal de São Vicente

Canal de São Vicente
Canal de São Vicente Location in Cape Verde
Coordinates	16°56′N 25°5′W / 16.933°N 25.083°W / 16.933; -25.083Coordinates: 16°56′N 25°5′W / 16.933°N 25.083°W / 16.933; -25.083
Ocean/sea sources	Atlantic Ocean
Basin countries	Cape Verde

Max. length	25 km (16 mi)
Max. width	12 km (7.5 mi)

Islands	Ilhéu dos Pássaros^[1]

The Canal de São Vicente is a channel of the Atlantic Ocean separating the islands of Santo Antão and São Vicente, Cape Verde.^[2]

Geography

At its narrowest point, it is 12 km wide.^[3] The ferry route between the ports of Porto Novo on Santo Antão and Mindelo on São Vicente crosses the canal as well as ferry routes linking the islands of São Nicolau and Santiago to the south, until 1962, the ferry route between the two islands ran in the east and east of Ponta do Tumbo. The channel begins in São Vicente's northwesternmost cape near Monte Cara up to the headland Ponta de João d'Évora in the northeast. At the locations, it borders the remaining of the Atlantic in the west and northeast while it borders a part of Baía de Salamansa in the southeast.

The highest point is about 150 to 160 meters below sea level and the deepest is about 500 to 600 meters below. Within 1 to 1.5 kilometers from the island shore and the bay, it is about 100 meters below sea level.

History

During the Ice Age, the channel was very narrow and the islands were met by about 500 meters to a kilometer apart, over 8,000 to 6,000 years ago, it became ten kilometers wide.

Nature

At the lowest parts of the channel, sea life are dominated and includes fishes and other marine sea creatures. At the west and east center parts, they are partly dominant. One of the rarest is the demosponge of the Amphilectus family, Amphilectus strepsichelifer founded in the deepest part of the channel, it was first described in the western part.^[4]

References

↑ "Ilhéu dos Pássaros". Mapcarta. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
↑ NGA Sailing Directions-Enroute: 2008 West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 2008. p. 181
↑ GoogleEarth
↑ van Soest, Rob W. M., Elly J. Beglinger & Nicole J. De Voogd, 2012: Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from northwest Africa. European journal of taxonomy, 18: 1–21.

External links

Pescaria no canal de São Vicente - Fishing Stories

African seas
Oceans and seas	Alboran Sea Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Levantine Sea Mediterranean Sea Red Sea Southern Ocean
Gulfs and bays	Abu Qir Bay Acheïl Dakhlet Al Hoceima Bay Algiers Bay Algoa Bay Ambas Bay Ana Chaves Bay Angra de Cintra Antongil Bay Antsiranana Bay Arab's Gulf Baía Almeida Baía da Condúcia Baía da Corimba Baía de Mocambo Baía de Mossuril Baía de Namibe Baia de Porto Amboim Baía de Santa Marta Baía de Sucujaque Baía de Tombua Baía do Ambriz Baía do Bengo Baía do Dande Baía do Govuro Baía do Lúrio Baía do Nzeto Baía do Suto Baia dos Tigres Baie de Gorée Baie de Sangareya Baie de Yof Bandombaai Bay of Anfile Bay of Arguin Bay of Aseb Bay of Arzew Bight of Benin Bay of Beylul Bay of Edd Bay of Hawakil Bay of Langarano Bay of Saint-Augustin Bay of Tangier Benguela Bay Bera’esoli Betty’s Bay Bight of Biafra Bocock’s Bay Bombetoka Bay Bootbaai Bosluisbaai Cape Cross Bay Cape Negro Bay Chake-Chake Bay Chameis Bay Chwaka Bay Conception Bay Cuio Bay Dakhlet Nouadhibou Dalwakteah Bay Deurloopbaai Doringbaai Dungonab Bay Durissa Bay Elands Bay Enseada das Pombas Enseada de São Braz Enseada do Catumbo Enseada do Chalungo Enseada do Quicombo Enseada do Quitungo Enseada dos Três Irmãos Equimina Bay False Bay Farta Bay Fernao Veloso Bay Foul Bay Frederik se Baai Grosse Bucht Gulf of Aden Gulf of 'Agig Gulf of Gabès Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Hammamet Gulf of Sirte Gulf of Suez Gulf of Tadjoura Gulf of Tunis Gulf of Zula Hafun Bay South Hann Bay Harrison Cove Henties Bay Hirghīgo Bahir Selat’ē Horingbaai Hottentotsbaai Hurdiyo Hydra Bay Inhambane Bay Jammer Bucht John Owen Bay Kalawy Bay Kiwaiyu Bay Lambert Bay Lamu Bay Langbaai Loango Bay Lobito Bay Luanda Bay Lüderitz Bay McDougall Bay Manza Bay Maputo Bay Markusbaai Memba Bay Menai Bay Meob Bay Mietjie Frans se Baai Moraha Bahir Selat’ē Mossel Bay Möwebaai Noopbaai Oran Gulf Pemba Bay Pipas Bay Platbaai Plaatjieskraalbaai Plettenbergbaai Pointe-Noire Bay Port Alexander, Angola Prinzen Bucht Río de Oro Bay Rock Bay Roode Bay Rooiwalbaai Saint Francis Bay Saint Francis Bay (Eastern Cape) St Helena Bay Saint Sebastian Bay Saldanha Bay Sandwich Harbour Sierra Bay Skoonbergbaai Skurfbaai Slangbaai Sodwana Bay Sofala Bay Somnaasbaai Spencer Bay Struisbaai Spoegrivierbaai Swartstraat Table Bay Thysbaai Tietiesbaai Ungama Bay Walker Bay Walvis Bay (bay) Yawri Bay
Straits	Bab-el-Mandeb Bab Iskender Canal de Bolama Canal de Bolola Canal de Caió Canal de São Vicente Canal do Meio Mafia Channel Massawa Channel Mozambique Channel‎ Pemba Channel Shubuk Channel Strait of Gibraltar Strait of Sicily Straits of Tiran Zanzibar Channel
Historical seas	Aethiopian Sea Erythraean Sea Sea of Zanj

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