Fogo
Fogo is one of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic. It lies east of the islands Brava and west of Santiago. The Pico do Fogo is with 2,829 m the second highest mountain in the Atlantic and dominates the island, which has a diameter of about 26 km.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include São Filipe and Chã das Caldeiras.
São Filipe
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São Filipe is a city on the west coast of Africa on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. It is the capital of the island, and the seat of the São Filipe Municipality.
Chã das Caldeiras
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Chã das Caldeiras - literally the Plateau of the Crater - is the area inside the original crater that created the island of Fogo 100000 years ago. The villages of Portela and Bangaeria are effectively joined as they sprawl for a kilometer or two on the main road that crosses the crater.
Photo: Holger Reineccius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Fogo
- Type: Island with 35,800 residents
- Description: only island of Cape Verde with an active volcano
- Also known as: “Fogo Island” and “Fogo, Cape Verde”
- Location: Cape Verde, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wolof—“Fogo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوغو”
- Armenian: “Ֆոգու”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Фогу”
- Belarusian: “Фогу”
- Breton: “Fogo”
- Catalan: “illa de Fogo”
- Catalan: “Illa de Fogo”
- Cebuano: “Fogo Island (pulo sa Cabo Verde)”
- Cebuano: “Fogo Island”
- Chinese: “福古岛”
- Chinese: “福古島”
- Czech: “Fogo”
- Danish: “Fogo”
- Dutch: “Fogo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوجو”
- Estonian: “Fogo”
- Finnish: “Fogo”
- French: “Fogo”
- German: “Fogo”
- Greek: “Φόγκο”
- Guarani: “Fogo”
- Hebrew: “פוגו”
- Hindi: “फोगो, वर्दे अंतरीप”
- Hungarian: “Fogo”
- Indonesian: “Fogo, Tanjung Verde”
- Italian: “Fogo”
- Japanese: “フォゴ島”
- Kabuverdianu: “Fôg”
- Kabuverdianu: “Fôgu”
- Korean: “포구섬”
- Lithuanian: “Fogo sala”
- Low German: “Fogo”
- Luxembourgish: “Fogo”
- Macedonian: “Фогу”
- Malayalam: “ഫോഗോ, വെർദ്ദേ മുനമ്പ്”
- Northern Frisian: “Fogo (Kapwerden)”
- Northern Frisian: “Fogo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fogo”
- Norwegian: “Fogo”
- Persian: “فوگو، دماغه سبز”
- Persian: “فوگو، کیپ ورد”
- Polish: “Fogo”
- Portuguese: “Fogo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Fogo”
- Russian: “Фогу”
- Slovenian: “Fogo”
- Spanish: “Fogo”
- Spanish: “Isla de Fogo”
- Swahili: “Mlima Fogo”
- Swedish: “Fogo”
- Ukrainian: “Фогу”
- Urdu: “فوگو، کیپ ورڈی”
- Wolof: “Fogo”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fogo”. Photo: Ximonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.