Salto (Cape Verde)
Salto is a village on the Cape Verde island of Fogo . It is located around 15 km east of the island's capital São Filipe and around twelve kilometers south of the crater of the Pico do Fogo volcano , the island's main attraction. During the last eruptions in 1951 and 1995, Salto was spared from destruction. The place is called Saltu in Creole .
Infrastructure
Salto is connected to the island's capital, São Filipe, which is around 15 km away, via the well-developed ring road that goes around the island of Fogo, which is passable in all weather conditions. Another well-developed road branches off to the north in the center of Salto. It leads via Monte Largo to the already relatively well-developed tourist region of the Parque Natural do Fogo , which was founded in 2003 and which, with the active volcano Pico do Fogo, is the main attraction of the entire island. To the east of Salto, through the village of Cova Matinho , known for its Praia Casa beach , Mosteiros , the second largest town on Fogo, is reached.
Several times a day (not on Sundays or public holidays) the village can be reached from São Filipe with the Aluguer buses typical of Cape Verde . They operate on a specific route, but not according to a fixed timetable, but depart as soon as enough passengers have arrived.
Salto has a school, a simple restaurant and shops for daily needs, but currently no accommodation for tourists. The place consists for the most part of single-storey houses with a flat roof or hipped roof , but individual multi-storey new buildings have also been built in recent years, although not all of the owners live on Cape Verde.
Sights and special features
For the economy of the island of Fogo, Salto, which by Cape Verdean standards is located in an area with relatively lush vegetation, is of outstanding importance, as the place is the center of an agriculturally relatively intensively used area. The fields, which for the most part were surrounded by high walls made of natural stone to protect against erosion, are partly irrigated with the help of drip irrigation. Some fields are laid out on terraces. The island of Fogo receives the most rainfall of all the islands in Cape Verde, but there are no rivers or streams on Fogo that carry water all year round. Since the rainwater quickly seeps into the porous, volcanic soil, the water is extracted through deep boreholes, which were initially carried out with the help of the German Society for Technical Cooperation (DGTZ). This is of immense importance for the Cape Verde Islands, where only around a tenth of the food required is produced in the country itself, and the transport of imported food from Mindelo and the other international ports of Cape Verde to the smaller islands like Fogo is not uncommon Connected problems. In the fields around Salto, mainly potatoes, corn and vegetables such as B. peppers, cabbage and eggplant and occasionally sugar cane are grown. Bananas, papayas and tamarinds also thrive in the Salto area.
The church of Salto is also worth seeing and is worth a stop on the drive to Parque Natural do Fogo.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingrid and Peter Kirschey: Cape Verde , p. 147. Cologne, no date.
- ^ Rolf Osang. Cape Verde Islands , p. 140. Cologne 2001.
- ↑ Pitt Reitmaier, Lucete Fortes: Cabo Verde - Cape Verde Islands , p. 176.Bielefeld 2009.
- ↑ Nuno Augusto. Cabo Verde - um mundo a descobrir , p. 22. Lisbon 2009.
Coordinates: 14 ° 52 ′ N , 24 ° 25 ′ W