Salcette

Salcete is a taluka (a unit of administration) of South Goa District in the Indian state of Goa. Its administrative and economic headquarters is Margao. It is largely coterminous with a region called "Saxtty"(सष्टी), which comprised, by local tradition, sixty-six villages [See http://www.goatourism.org/History/mythology.htm.] , hence the name. Saxtty includes the taluka Mormugao, however. There are six comunidades in Salcette; Raia, Margao, Loutolim, Curtorim, Verna and Benaulim, and Quelossim in Mormugao.

Salsette Island however refers to the northern part of the island of the city of Mumbai which was an island in its own right before reclamation of land from the sea led to its merger with the Island of Bandra and Mahim.

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