Nossa Senhora das Dores (Sal)

Nossa Senhora das Dores
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Island:	Sal
Municipality:	Sal
Altitude: Lowest: Centre: Highest	Atlantic Ocean 80 m Pedra Lume?

Nossa Senhora das Dores is a parish in Cape Verde. The seat of the parish is Espargos and includes the entire island and the municipality.

Places

• Pedra de Lume, on the eastern coast, is the most ancient, and the home of the first salt workers. Today it is only a small village with very few inhabitants.
• Palmeira is a fishing village, built around a port situated on the opposite coast of the island. It is also a small village but it is currently growing.
• Espargos (5,758 for the town, 8,000 including Hortelão and Preguiça) is the main urban center and is situated between Pedra de Lume and Palmeira. It was formed around the international airport named after Amilcar Cabral (IATA airport code SID) located in the heart of the island.
• Terra Boa is the only place on the island where you can find agriculture on a large scale, as the island, and the others mentioned above, are very dry, mainly because they have no mountains to induce rainfall. This place is situated north of Espargos.
• Murdeira is a tourist resort, which has recently experienced great growth, with many people buying houses there.
• Finally, there's Santa Maria (pop: 1,367), which was a former salt working village but is now the tourism center of the island and one of the most important (if not the most important) touristical points in the country.
• Feijoal situated 1 km west of Pedra de Lume.
• Fontona located south of Palmeira.
• Reguinho Fiúra a remote village located near its lighthouse and overlooking Ponta Norte, the island's northernmost point.

Other geographical features

• See also: Sal, Cape Verde