Sal
Sal is an island in Cape Verde. Sal is a tourist destination with white sandy 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 off the west coast of Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: concelho of Cape Verde with 39,700 residents
- Description: municipality on the island of Sal, Cape Verde
- Also known as: “Concelho do Sal”, “Sal Municipality”, and “Sal, Cape Verde”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amílcar Cabral International Airport and Estádio Marcelo Leitão.
Amílcar Cabral International Airport
Aerodrome
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Amílcar Cabral International Airport, also known as Sal International Airport, is the main international airport of Cape Verde. The airport is named after the revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral. Amílcar Cabral International Airport is situated 4 km west of Sal.
Estádio Marcelo Leitão
Stadium
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Estádio Marcelo Leitão is a multi-use stadium in Sal Island, Cape Verde. It is used mostly for football matches and now track and field and has a capacity of 8,000 people.
Pedra de Lume Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Farol de Pedra de Lume is a lighthouse in the eastern point of the island of Sal in northeastern Cape Verde at the small port of Pedra de Lume and 5 km east of the city of Espargos. The chapel was completed in 1853, the lighthouse was completed in 1855.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Espargos and Pedra de Lume.
Espargos
Town
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Espargos is the capital and main commercial centre of the island and municipality of Sal, Cape Verde. The city is situated in the heart of the island.
Pedra de Lume
Village
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Pedra de Lume is a village in the northeastern part of the island of Sal, Cape Verde. The village is situated on the east coast, about 5 km east of the island capital Espargos. It has a small port and a lighthouse, Farol de Pedra de Lume.
Terra Boa
Locality
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Terra Boa is a remote village in the northern part of the island of Sal, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 131. The village is about 4 km north of the island capital Espargos. Terra Boa is situated 5 km northwest of Sal.
Sal
- Location: Cape Verde, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سال”
- Asturian: “Sal”
- Bengali: “সাল”
- Breton: “Sal”
- Catalan: “Sal”
- Cebuano: “Sal Municipality”
- Chinese: “萨尔县”
- Chinese: “薩爾縣”
- Danish: “Sal”
- Dutch: “Sal”
- Finnish: “Sal”
- French: “Sal”
- German: “Sal”
- Greek: “Δήμος Σαλ”
- Gujarati: “સાલ”
- Hindi: “साल”
- Hungarian: “Sal”
- Indonesian: “Sal”
- Italian: “contea di Sal”
- Italian: “Contea di Sal”
- Japanese: “サル (カーボベルデ)”
- Japanese: “サル”
- Japanese: “サル基礎自治体”
- Kannada: “ಸಾಲ್”
- Korean: “살 시”
- Korean: “살시”
- Latvian: “Sala”
- Lithuanian: “Salas”
- Malay: “Sal”
- Marathi: “साल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sal”
- Polish: “Sal”
- Portuguese: “Concelho do Sal”
- Portuguese: “Município do Sal”
- Portuguese: “Sal”
- Russian: “Сал”
- Sinhala: “සල්”
- Slovenian: “Sal”
- Spanish: “Sal (Cabo Verde)”
- Spanish: “Sal”
- Swedish: “Sal”
- Tamil: “ஸல்”
- Telugu: “సాల్”
- Thai: “ซาล”
- Turkish: “Sal”
- Ukrainian: “Сал”
- Urdu: “سال، کیپ ورڈی”
- Urdu: “سال”
- Vietnamese: “Sal”
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