Baía de Salamansa

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Baía de Salamansa
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Baía de Salamansa near the village of Salamansa. Santo Antão Island in background.
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Baía de Salamansa
Location North of Salamansa,, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Coordinates 16°54′50″N24°56′56″W / 16.914°N 24.949°W / 16.914; -24.949
Max. length 3.68 km (2.29 mi)
Max. width 2.6 km (1.6 mi)
Average depth 5 m (16 ft)

Baía de Salamansa (Portuguese for "Salamansa Bay") is a bay on the north coast of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde north of the village of Salamansa and inside the Atlantic Ocean. Nearby bays are Porto Grande Bay being more than 3.5 km west and Baía das Gatas and Praia Grande being more than 2.6 km almost east. Monte João d'Évora and others likes to the west and smaller mountains to the south. East is predominant hilly and has elevations up to 60 m. Ponta da Salamansa is located northwest which separates the bay and Canal de São Vicente but northeast being simply the Atlantic. Another point is located to the northeast which forms a small headland to the east. A 1 km long beach is to the south which its width extends from 50 meters, 200 meters at Salamansa as far as about 500 meters and is known as Praia da Salamansa. Another beach and sandy area is Areia Negra to the southwest extending about 1 km inland. Areia Negra surrounds a part of Ribeira João d'Évora and are surrounded by hills.

Bay A recessed, coastal body of water connected to an ocean or lake

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a type of smaller bay with a circular inlet and narrow entrance. A fjord is a particularly steep bay shaped by glacial activity.

São Vicente, Cape Verde island in Cape Verde

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Cape Verde Country comprising ten islands off the Northwest coast of Africa

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Most of the bay is shallow with its depth about 10 meters below. Its length is 3.68 km from east to west and its width is 1.85 km. 1 km north has the depth of 35 m, 2 km north is about 75 m deep. Further areas are not shallow as the area northwest at midway with Santo Antão has the depth down to about 400 m and at 1000 m deep more than 8 km north.

The bay give its name to a nearby village in the south.

History

The point and its bay were mentioned in Imray's 1888 map as "Salamasa Bay" and "Ponta de Salamasa" as he visited Cape Verde and other countries. Until the early 20th century, the spelling was "Bahía de Salamansa".

In 2015, touristic developments began southeast of the bay, housing and also hotels, resorts, villas and probably a golf course are planned, the planning is uncertain, it covers most of the northeasternmost part and a small eastern part belongs to Baía das Gatas. Also in the same year, a species of gobies was discovered and were distinct from other gobies in the area and were described as the Salamansa goby (Gobius salamansa). [1]

Goby common name of fish

Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Traditionally most of the species called gobies have been classified in the order Perciformes as the suborder Gobioidei but in the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World this suborder is elevated to an order Gobiiformes within the clade Percomorpha. Not all the species in the Gobiiformes are referred to as gobies and the "true gobies" are placed in the family Gobiidae, while other species referred to as gobies have been placed in the Oxudercidae.. Goby is also used to describe some species which are not classified within the order Gobiiformes, such as the engineer goby or convict blenny Pholidichthys leucotaenia. The word goby derives from the Latin gobius meaning "gudgeon", and some species of goby, especially the sleeper gobies in the family Eleotridae and some of the dartfishes are called "gudgeons", especially in Australia.

The Salamansa goby is a species of marine fish from the family Gobiidae, the true gobies. It is only known from the Bay of Salamansa in the north of the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, where it occurs to a depth of about 1 metre (3.3 ft). The species was named and described by Samuel P. Iglésias and Lou Frotté in 2015. The species name salamansa refers to the type location.

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References

  1. ↑ Iglésias, S.P., Frotté, L. & Sellos, D.Y. (2015): Gobius salamansa, a new species of goby (Gobiidae) from the Cape Verde Islands supported by a unique cephalic lateral line system and DNA barcoding. Ichthyological Research, 63 (3): 356-369.
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