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Island Island An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm... :	Boa Vista Boa Vista, Cape Verde Boa Vista is the easternmost island of Cape Verde. It is located in the Barlavento group of the archipelago. The island is known for marine turtles and traditional music, as well as its ultramarathon and its sand dunes and beaches...
Municipality:	Boa Vista Boa Vista, Cape Verde Boa Vista is the easternmost island of Cape Verde. It is located in the Barlavento group of the archipelago. The island is known for marine turtles and traditional music, as well as its ultramarathon and its sand dunes and beaches...
Distance from the island capital of Sal Rei Sal Rei Sal Rei is a city on the northwestern coast of the island of Boa Vista in eastern Cape Verde. Sal Rei is the island's main urban settlement, and the 18th largest community in Cape Verde after Cidade Velha. It is also the seat of the Boa Vista Municipality... :	about 35 km east
Altitude: Lowest: Centre: Highest	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area... (north) around 30 m around 200 m (western part)

Gatas (also in the Capeverdean Crioulo forms of ALUPEC

ALUPEC

The Alfabeto Unificado para a Escrita do Caboverdiano , commonly known as ALUPEC, is the alphabet that was officially recognized by the Cape Verdean government to write Cape Verdean Creole.- Description :...

 or ALUPEK, the Boa Vista and the São Vicente

São Vicente Crioulo language

São Vicente Creole is the name given to the variant of Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly in the São Vicente Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Barlavento Creoles branch. This form of the Cape Verdean Creole has about 80,000 to 100,000 speakers primarily in the São Vicente island, but also in a...

 Crioulos ) is a village in the east-northeastern part of the island of Boa Vista

Boa Vista, Cape Verde

Boa Vista is the easternmost island of Cape Verde. It is located in the Barlavento group of the archipelago. The island is known for marine turtles and traditional music, as well as its ultramarathon and its sand dunes and beaches...

. The village is around 30 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei

Sal Rei

Sal Rei is a city on the northwestern coast of the island of Boa Vista in eastern Cape Verde. Sal Rei is the island's main urban settlement, and the 18th largest community in Cape Verde after Cidade Velha. It is also the seat of the Boa Vista Municipality...

 and northeast of Norte and are linked with an earthened road linking. The beach, the Praia das Gatas

Praia das Gatas

Praia das Gatas is a beach covering the northeastern coastline of the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde. Its total length is approximately 10 km and it extends from the area east of Norte to the island's northeasternmost point...

 and its promontory lie to the northeast and is Norte's nearest beach, frequently unused.

Geography

The village is situated in the dry desert climate and it receives little or no precipitation annually. Farmlands are nearly unavailable and are mainly of cattle and rarely some fruit productions and are nearly the size of the football field and its only has about tens of farms, many foodstuffs are received from the northern and the southern parts of the nation. The area are mainly desert and are covered with bushes to the hilly portion in the western part, its soil colour ranges from yellow-brown to red, the mountains are also to the west, a plateau covers the remainder of the area and rocky cliffs to the eastern shoreline of the Atlantic with some low hills in some areas.

The village is in the island's low class. Most of the houses are built with stone and concrete, several houses are built with either steel reinforced concrete or with stone and wood, a few homes are made up of mud and brick. A part of its population are farmers and are based in agriculture. The area received no income until the mi -20th century and is the island's poorest settlement. However, a part of the needy materials comes from the island capital, the island capital and the diaspora. But for other needs, electricity, communications and appliances are nearly unavailable in the area as well as phone lines but introduced since the late-20th century. A part of the necessities also comes from the island capital.

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• Coordinates: 16°12′0"N 22°43′0"W

See also=

• List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde