Pilão Cão is a settlement in the eastern part of the island of
Maio 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 ...
. In 2010 its population was 102. It is located 1 km south of
Alcatraz
Alcatraz Island () is a small island about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco in San Francisco Bay, California, near the Golden Gate Strait. The island was developed in the mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fo ...
and 14 km northeast of the island capital
Porto Inglês.
See also
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List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde
References
Villages and settlements in Maio, Cape Verde
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