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	Boa Vista
	Municipality
Country	Cape Verde
Island	Boa Vista
Seat town	Sal Rei
Area	620 km2 (239 sq mi)
Population	3,353 (2005)
Density	5 /km2 (13 /sq mi)
ISO 3166-2 code	CV-BV
CGN-CV code	51
Demonym	Boa-vistense m, ~s pl
	Website: http://www.anmcv.org/portugues/membro.php?id=boavista

Boa Vista
Native name: Bubista
Geography
Location	Atlantic Ocean
Coordinates	16°6′11.934″N 22°48′12.589″W / 16.103315°N 22.80349694°W
Area	620 square kilometres (240 sq mi)
Length	31 kilometres (19 mi)
Width	29 kilometres (18 mi)
Highest point	Monte Estância (387 metres (1,270 ft))
Country
	Cape Verde
Concelhos (Municipalities)	Boa Vista
Largest city	Sal Rei

For other uses, see Boa Vista.

Boa Vista (Portuguese meaning “good view”) is the easternmost island of Cape Verde. It is located in the Barlavento group of the archipelago. The island is known for marine turtles and traditional music, as well as its ultramarathon and its sand dunes and beaches.

The island also constitutes the municipality of Boa Vista, which has two parishes, Santa Isabel and São João Baptista

[edit] Geography

Boa Vista landscape.

With an area of 620 km², it is the third largest island, after Santo Antão and Santiago. It is 455 km west of the coast of Africa. Much of the island is flat. The highest point on the island is Monte Estância, elevation 387 meters; other mountains include Santo António (Saint Anthony) and Monte Negro (Black Mountain). Other features include Campo da Serra. Its main town is Sal Rei, its ferry port and home to Boa Vista's airport (Rabil Airport)on the northwest side of the island.

Surrounding islets include Ilhéu de Sal Rei featuring a lighthouse in the west, and Ilhéu do Baluate featuring the easternmost point in Cape Verde. Points include Ponta Antónia to the north.

[edit] Settlements

Ruins of the abandoned village Curral Velho.

[edit] Population

While most of the population live in Sal Rei, there are many small settlements with 10 to 100 people; others are abandoned. It has the smallest population of all of inhabited Cape Verde’s islands, and it is the least-dense populated in the archipelago.

Population of Boa Vista, Cape Verde (1940—2010)
1940^[1]	1950^[1]	1960^[1]	1970^[1]	1980^[1]	1990^[1]	2000^[2]	2010^[3]
2779	2985	3263	3569	3372	3452	4209	6233

[edit] Economy

Its economy was originally based on agriculture, but desertification led to salt collection becoming more important. Its main industries today are date farming and, increasingly, tourism, with already several touristic establishments being built in recent times. A large 750-room RIU Hotels hotel (Riu Karamboa) has recently opened 5 km South of Sal Rei, having more rooms than all other tourist accommodation on Boa Vista combined^{[citation needed]}. A further Riu with 2000 rooms is planned for the South of the island.

[edit] Sporting teams

Main article: Boa Vista Island League

[edit] Persons

Aristides Pereira, Cape Verde's first president
Germano Almeida, a Capeverdean writer [1]

[edit] Other

Boa Vista has a college (colegio), a middle school, high school, churches, beaches, a hotel, a port, and a square (praça).

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Source: Statoids
^ Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatísticas.
^ Source: projection to 2010 from the Instituto Nacional de Estatísticas.

[edit] External links

Coordinates: 16°6′11.934″N 22°48′12.589″W / 16.103315°N 22.80349694°W / 16.103315; -22.80349694

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[Stat-0] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Source: Statoids

[1] Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatísticas.

[2] Source: projection to 2010 from the Instituto Nacional de Estatísticas.

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