Barlavento Islands

The Barlavento Islands (Portuguese: Ilhas de Barlavento, literally, the Windward Islands) is the northern group of the Cape Verde archipelago.[1] It presents as two sub-groups:

Barlavento islands (yellow) within Cape Verde
Barlavento Islands

The total land mass is 2,239 km2 (864 sq mi).[1] Spanning from longitude -22.67 to -25.36 (implying west of the Prime Meridian), the group sits in the Trade winds, specifically at the optional southern turn or tack termed by European sailors a key point of the Volta do Mar. The islands are west of Cap-Vert at -17.31 west, in turn the westernmost point of Africa on the outskirts of Dakar (the capital of Senegal).

See also

Notes

  1. plus islet Ilhéu dos Pássaros
  2. plus islet Ilhéu Rabo de Junco
  3. plus islets Ilhéu de Sal-Rei and Ilhéu do Baluarte

References

  1. Valor simbólico do centro histórico da Praia, Lourenço Conceição Gomes, Universidade Portucalense, 2008, p. 58-59

Further reading

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