Morro Negro is a hill located near the east coast of the island of
Boa Vista,
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
. Its elevation is 156 m. The nearest village is
Cabeça dos Tarrafes
Cabeça dos Tarrafes (also: ''Cabeça dos Tarafes'') is a village in the eastern part of the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde. The village is located about 2 km south of Fundo das Figueiras and 21 km southeast of the island capital of ...
, 5.5 km to the northwest.
Turtle Nature Reserve
The hill forms a part of the Turtle Nature Reserve (Portuguese: ''Reserva Natural Tartaruga''), which covers 14.39 km
2 of land area and 134.36 km
2 of marine area.
[Protected areas in the island of Boa Vista]
- Municipality of Boa Vista, March 2013 [Resolução nº 36/2016]
, Estratégia e Plano Nacional de Negócios das Áreas Protegidas The reserve protects the beaches as nesting areas for its turtle population, and its wetlands and salty lands for birds.
Lighthouse
There is a lighthouse on the hill.
[ The lighthouse was built around 1930. It is 12 meters tall and its focal height is 163 meters.][ Its light range is .][
]
See also
*List of lighthouses in Cape Verde
The following article is a list of lighthouses in Cape Verde. Cape Verde has tens of lighthouses scattered across its nine major islands. The lighthouses are administered by the Direction of Marine and Ports (''Direcção Geral de Marinha e Portos' ...
*List of mountains in Cape Verde
This is a list of mountains in Cabo Verde:
List
See also
*Lists of mountains by region
*Geography of Cape Verde
Notes
External links
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Mountains of Cape Verde, *
Lists of mountains by country, Cape Verde
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References
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Negro
In the English language, the term ''negro'' (or sometimes ''negress'' for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black people, Black African heritage. The term ''negro'' means the color black in Spanish and Portuguese (from ...
Geography of Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Lighthouses in Cape Verde