Monte Trigo

Monte Trigo
Coordinates: 17°01′12″N 25°19′44″W / 17.020°N 25.329°W / 17.020; -25.329Coordinates: 17°01′12″N 25°19′44″W / 17.020°N 25.329°W / 17.020; -25.329
Country Cape Verde
Island Santo Antão
Municipality Porto Novo
Civil parish Santo André
Elevation 2 m (7 ft)
Population (2010)[1]
 • Total 274

Monte Trigo is the westernmost settlement on the island of Santo Antão and Cape Verde, also the whole of Africa together with the mainland and the islands. It is situated on the coast, at the foot of the Topo da Coroa, the highest mountain of the island. It is 28 km west of the island capital Porto Novo. The settlement is named after a nearby mountain lying to the northwest. It has a small port which are both used for fishing and ferry service with Tarrafal de Monte Trigo, one of only two in Cape Verde that serves different part of an island, the other being São Nicolau and once done on Sal and is the westernmost port in the whole of Africa together with the mainland and the islands. The two of the island's western ports were the leastly used but before the construction of Porto Novo in the island's southeast in 1962, it was the island's third most used port after Ribeira Grande and Ponta do Sol and once served boat routes with the nearby island of São Vicente.

About the village

The name etymology is likely being named after being in three parts "trigo" meaning the three sides in a form of a triangle centered at the bay or the peninsula.

It is accessible only with a pathway with Tarrafal de Monte Trigo (2 hours, 30 minutes) or by boat (45 minutes).

Agricultural lands dominate the coast and the small ravine to the north, barren grasslands and mountain slopes dominate the rest of the area.

The village received 100% renewable energy on February 2012.

Since 2014, Monte Trigo has its own football (soccer) club but based in Tarrafal named Tarrafal FC de Monte Trigo which includes the village. It also has its own dirt field and is the club's second field.

Around Monte Trigo

Around 2 km northwest is Ponta de Mangrande, the westernmost point of all Africa (together with the mainland and its islands), it also has a small lighthouse.

The point in the northwest marked the line made by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 that divided the spheres of Iberian influences 370 leagues (1,770 km) west of the point and extended up to the north and south poles, it marked the line between discovered and then undiscovered lands.

Population

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 17 March 2014.
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