IMRAY(1884) p0173 CAPE VERDES, PORTO GRANDE

Porto Grande Bay ( pt, Baía do Porto Grande), also Mindelo Bay, is a bay on the north coast of the island of São Vicente,

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. The main city of São Vicente,

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, is situated at the bay. The Porto Grande Bay is a natural harbour. It stretches between the headlands Ponta João Ribeiro in the northeast and Ponta do Morro Branco in the west. To the northwest it opens towards the Canal de São Vicente, the channel between the islands São Vicente and Santo Antão. The small rocky islet

Ilhéu dos Pássaros Ilhéu dos Pássaros is an uninhabited rocky islet in the bay of Mindelo, São Vicente Island, Cape Verde. It lies about west of the headland Ponta João Ribeiro, and northwest of Mindelo city centre. It lies between the Porto Grande Bay an ...

lies north of the bay.

Port facilities

The port is owned and operated by

ENAPOR ENAPOR (''Empresa Nacional de Administração dos Portos'', Portuguese for "National Company for Port Administration") is the Cape Verdean port authority. Its purpose is the administration, management and economic exploitation of the ports, termin ...

, the Cape Verdean port authority. Since the latest modernization in 2014, the port has 4 long quays, 4 shorter quays, a quay for fishing boats with fish processing installations, a container terminal (expanded and modernized in 1997), 2 roll-on/roll-off ramps and 3 passenger terminals. The total length of the quays is 1,560 m, and the maximum depth is 12 m. With 847,602 metric tonnes of cargo and 350,213 passengers handled (2017), it is the busiest port of Cape Verde. There are ferry services to the islands of Santo Antão, São Nicolau,

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Gallery

File:Mindelo.jpg, The Harbor of Mindelo facing Monte Verde File:20121027-IMG 1049.jpg, The city of Mindelo with a view of its bay File:Cabo_2010_Monte_Cara.jpg, Porto Grande Bay with Monte Cara File:CV-mind-hafenzufahrt.jpg, A monument located at the port's entrance west of Fortinho

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Photo of Porto Grande in 1948
{{Shipping in Cape Verde Bays of Cape Verde Geography of São Vicente, Cape Verde Transport in São Vicente, Cape Verde Ports and harbours of Cape Verde Economy of Cape Verde Mindelo