Ervatão or Porto de Ervatão is a beach on the southeast coast of the island of
Boa Vista in
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
. At its eastern end is the headland ''Ponta de Ervatão,'' and at its western end is the headland ''Ponta Cosme''. Ervatão is part of the Turtle Nature Reserve (Portuguese: ''Reserva Natural Tartaruga'').
[Protected areas in the island of Boa Vista]
- Municipality of Boa Vista, March 2013 The area of Ervatão receives 70% of all turtles nesting on Boa Vista. In July 2009, 8,000 turtle nests were counted.
See also
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List of beaches in Cape Verde
References
Beaches of Cape Verde
Geography of Boa Vista, Cape Verde
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