The São Francisco Bay ( pt, Baía de São Francisco, also ''Porto de São Francisco'') is a bay on the southeastern coast of the island of
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
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Cape Verde
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, official_languages = Portuguese
, national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole
, capital = Praia
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. It is situated 8 km northeast of the city centre of
Praia
Praia (, Portuguese language, Portuguese for "beach") is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde. , the capital of Cape Verde. The bay was mentioned in the 1747 map by
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "St. Francisco".
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Geography of Santiago, Cape Verde
Praia
Bays of Cape Verde