Calheta (Cape Verdean Creole: Kadjéta[citation needed]) is a village in the western part of the island of Maio. The village is around 10 km north of the island capital of Vila do Maio. It is the island's second largest settlement. About 500 to 600 m to the west is the Atlantic with its bay. The village is connected with the western island road (paved since the 1990s) stretching from Vila do Maio to Cascabulho. The other three rural dirt roads do not connect to any place on the east of the island but the northeast with Cascabulho as an alternate road. The geography today is predominantly with fields and groves around it, grasslands still exists in the eastern area. Until the 1980s, almost the whole area were made up of grasslands.
Population: 5,400
Latitude: 15° 11' 10.07" N
Longitude: -23° 35' 32.21" W
Cape Verde /ˌkeɪp ˈvɜrd/ or Cabo Verde /kaːboʊ ˈvɜrdeɪ/ (Portuguese: Cabo Verde, pronounced: [ˈkabu ˈveɾdɨ]), officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.
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