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Ponta Preta (
Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...
meaning "black tip") is a
headland A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, Jo ...
in the southwest of the island of Sal in
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 ...
. It is about 2 km west of the town Santa Maria and about 2 km of
Ponta do Sinó Ponta do Sinó is the southernmost point of the island of Sal, Cape Verde, Sal in Cape Verde.Reservas Naturais
Áreas protegidas Cabo Verde


See also

* List of beaches in Cape Verde *
Tourism in Cape Verde Tourism in Cape Verde, a group of islands off the coast of Senegal, West Africa, started in the 1970s on the island of Sal and increased slowly in the 1980s and 1990s. Overview Tourism contributed US$41 million to the country's economy in th ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Preta Sul Ponta Santa Maria, Cape Verde Headlands of Cape Verde
Preta ''Preta'' (, ''yi dags''), also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of humans, particularly ...