Ponta do Chao de Mangrade
| Ponta do Chao de Mangrade | ||
 Santo Antão , the cape forms the western tip |
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| Coordinates | 17 ° 3 '15 " N , 25 ° 21' 40" W | |
| Waters 1 | Atlantic Ocean | |
Ponta do Chão de Mangrade (also Ponta de Mangrade , Ponta Chão de Mangrade or Ponta Oeste ) is a cape on the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa . It marks the western tip of the island of Santo Antão as well as the westernmost point of Cape Verdes and the entire African continent.
The cape is located five kilometers northwest of the next town of Monte Trigo with 274 inhabitants (2010) and about 31.5 km west of the main town of the island, Porto Novo . It belongs to the territory of the municipality of Santo André . It lies at the end of an approximately 250 m long, roughly semicircular peninsula and is about 25 m further west than a point just under a kilometer south. The coast is rocky and steep, there may be some rocks in front of it. A hiking trail leads to the cape. The Ribeira de Curral Velho stream flows about 2.4 km to the northeast .
At the cape is the Ponta de Mangrade lighthouse . It consists of a three meter high white cylindrical concrete tower with solar-powered red light. Its focal length is 112 m and its range is 13 nautical miles and 24 km, respectively; it sends two flashes of white light every ten seconds. It was completed at the end of the 19th century when shipping to Mindelo was booming. It is administered by the Direcção Geral de Marinha e Portos (DGMP).
It is 876 km to the African mainland in a west-southwest direction. The easternmost point of the American mainland is a little more than 850 km to the west than the Ponta do Chão de Mangrade, the easternmost island in South America is just over 300 km.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Lipps-Breda, Oliver Breda: DuMont Reise-Taschenbuch Kapverden (2019), p. 294
- ↑ Tactical Pilotage Chart K-0A from the Perry – Castañeda Map Collection
- ↑ United States Naval Oceanographic Office: Sailing Directions for the West Coasts of Spain, Portugal, and Northwest Africa and Offlying Islands (1952), p. 197
- ↑ Data from OpenStreetMap
- ^ Lighthouses of Cape Verde , Russ Rowlett in: The Lighthouse Directory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
