Montanha is a settlement in the central part of the island of
Santiago
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,
Cape Verde
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. It is situated 2 km north of
and 8 km southwest of
. The area is intensively farmed; mainly maize, beans and sugar-cane.
Mahogany trees
There are two
African mahogany trees near the village of Banana (part of the settlement Montanha), standing at the bottom of the Ribeira Montanha valley, 400 m above sea level. The trees were identified as an
Important Bird Area
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IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
(IBA) by
BirdLife International
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because they support a
colony
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their ''metropole'' (or "mother country"). This separated rule was often orga ...
of
purple heron
The purple heron (''Ardea purpurea'') is a wide-ranging heron species. It breeds in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Palearctic. The Western Palearctic populations migrate between breeding and wintering habitats whe ...
s
or
Bourne's herons.
References
Villages and settlements in Santiago, Cape Verde
São Lourenço dos Órgãos
Important Bird Areas of Cape Verde
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