Mindelo Bay

The Harbor of Mindelo

Mindelo Bay is a bay located northwest of the island of São Vicente. The ferry route linking with the port of Porto Novo on Santo Antão and Mindelo on São Vicente crosses the canal with the boat named Mar d' Canal as well as shipping lines with Mindelo and other places around the world including from several African and Latin American ports and North American and European ports.

Places by the strait

• Lazareto, south
• Mindelo, east

Geography

Its length is approximately 6 km and its width is only 4 km, the area is approximately 20 km² and is connected with the Canal de São Vicente and the rest of the Atlantic Ocean. The bay's length goes from the northwesternmost to another cape north of Mindelo and from south Mindelo up to the islet Ilhéu dos Pássaros. The lining is circular from north Mindelo to Lazareto in the south and jagged up to the points, another point which features a mountain is northwest of the downtown area and it features a beach north of the cape and another port. The bay includes the grassy islet named Ilhéu dos Pássaros, an island with about 100 to 150 m in length and around 40 m in height and is to the north of the bay.

Mindelo's port is in the southeast and extends into the bay. The port was expanded in the mid-1990s. Its coast is mainly rocky to the north and west, the shoreline is sandy to the south and by the northern part of Monte Cara in which the point is named Morro Branco where it extends up to as high as 60 to 80 m.