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Key facts
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Area
- 274.5 km (106.0 sq mi)
- Length
- 24.1 km (14.98 mi)
- Width
- 16.3 km (10.13 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 436 m (1430 ft)
- Highest point
- Monte Penoso
- Municipality
- Maio
- Largest settlement
- Porto Inglês
- Demonym
- Maiense
- Population
- 6980 (2015)
- Pop density
- 25.4/km (65.8/sq mi)
- Official website
- www .municipiodomaio .cv
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Sotavento Islands
- Country
- Cape Verde
- Located in
- Maio
- Capital
- Porto Inglês
- Population
- 6812
- Area
- 269
- Elevation
- 428
- Time zone
- UTC−01:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Highest point
- Monte Penoso
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- V DSC00097.JPG
- Width
- 17.3
- Length
- 26.1
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- Commons category
- Maio (Cape Verde)
- topic's main category
- Category:Maio, Cape Verde
- located in/on physical feature
- Cape Verde
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Encyclopedic overview
Maio (Portuguese for "May"), is the easternmost of the Sotavento islands of Cape Verde. Maio is located south of the island of Boa Vista and east of Santiago. Administratively, the island forms one concelho (municipality): Maio.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.