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Also known as Sal Island, Sal, Cape Verde
island of Cape Verde
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Key facts
- Location
- Africa
- Coordinates
- 16°43′N 22°56′W / 16.717°N 22.933°W / 16.717; -22.933
- Area
- 219.84 km (84.88 sq mi)
- Length
- 29.7 km (18.45 mi)
- Width
- 11.8 km (7.33 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 406 m (1332 ft)
- Highest point
- Monte Grande
- Municipality
- Sal
- Largest settlement
- Espargos
- Population
- 39,700 (2019)
- Pop density
- 180/km (470/sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Barlavento Islands
- Country
- Cape Verde
- Located in
- Sal
- Capital
- Espargos
- Population
- 35267
- Area
- 216
- Elevation
- 48
- Time zone
- UTC−01:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Highest point
- Monte Grande (Sal), Cape Verde
- Image
- Sal SantaMaria.jpg
- Width
- 12
- Length
- 30
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- Commons category
- Sal (Cape Verde)
- topic's main category
- Category:Sal, Cape Verde
- time of discovery or invention
- 1460-12-03
- located in/on physical feature
- Cape Verde
- twinned administrative body
- Haikou
- native label
- Sal
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Encyclopedic overview
Sal (Portuguese for "salt") is an island in Cape Verde. Sal is a tourist destination with white sand beaches and over 350 days of sunshine a year. It is one of the three sandy eastern islands of the Cape Verde archipelago in the central Atlantic Ocean, 350 miles (560 km) off the west coast of Africa. Cabo Verde is known for year-round kiteboarding, for the large reserve of Caretta turtles which hatch from July to September, and the music of Cesaria Evora. Cabo Verde is now the world's largest nesting aggregation for this turtle species, and Sal has the second-largest rookery.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.