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Rabil is a townCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015
The river
Instituto Nacional de Estatística Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portuguese for "National Institute for Statistics") may refer to:
* Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde) - the national statistical agency of Cape Verde
* Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Mozambique) ...
, p. 32-33 on the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde
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. It was the island's former capital. Rabil is the island's second largest town, located southeast of the island capital of . Its population was 1,248 in 2010. The island's airport, Aristides Pereira International Airport
Aristides Pereira International Airport (Portuguese ''Aeroporto Internacional Aristides Pereira'') is an airport in Cape Verde located on the island of Boa Vista, about 5 km southeast of the island capital Sal Rei. It is the third-busies ...
, is situated northwest of the town.
Geography
The river Ribeira do Rabil
Ribeira do Rabil is a seasonal stream in the central and western part of the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde. It is 27 km long, and its basin area is .
flows past the town. The wetlands around its mouth are an Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
. The beach Praia da Chave
Praia de Chaves (also: ''Praia da Chave'') is a beach in the western part of the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde, close to the town Rabil. It is about 5 km long.
At the northern part of the beach, close to Rabil, tourist resorts have been dev ...
has been developed for tourism.
See also
*List of cities and towns in Cape Verde
This is a list of cities and towns in Cape Verde. In Cape Verde, there are two types of urban settlements: cities ( pt, cidades) and towns ( pt, vilas). Since 2015, there are 24 cities and 19 towns. 2000 and 2010.
Towns
The following table ...
*Tourism in Cape Verde
Tourism in Cape Verde, a group of islands off the coast of Senegal, West Africa, started in the 1970s on the island of Sal and increased slowly in the 1980s and 1990s.
Overview
Tourism contributed US$41 million to the country's economy in the ...
References
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