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REPUBLIC OF CABO-VERDE

LOCATION  The island of  FOGO is located on west of Santiago Island, is almost round in shape,and looks as if it is just a volcanic mountain. The surface area is 476 km2  and,  although only the fourth biggest island of the Archipelago, it is the  highest with the top of the volcano reaching a height of 2829 m. The volcano is in fact the main tourist attraction of the island. The volcanic come rises from sort of plateau about 8 km in diameter, called CHÃ DAS CALDEIRAS the walls on the western side reach almost 1000m and end in a crater 500 meters in diameter and 180 meters  deep. This is truly the most spectacular scenery in the whole of the Archipelago. The original volcanic cone must, at one time, have reached a height of  3500m.

The volcano was active right up to the XVIII century, when the main cone ceased activity and all that   remained as testimony to it were the volcanic vapours and deposits of sulphur.  There have been sporadic eruptions and the last  one was in 1951, when the lava poured out of one of the two chimneys on the southern side of the volcano.

FIRE DEPARTMENT/BOMBEIROS Phone:   811 313

POLICE/POLÍCIA: City of  São Filipe       Village of  Mosteiros Phone:  811 132          Phone:  831 073

FOGO ISLAND

Village of  Mosteiros      Phone:  811 228                City of  São Filipe   Phone:  831 031

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HOSPITAL

City of  São Filipe     Phone  811 177          Village of  Mosteiros Phone:  831 034

City of  São Filipe Phone: 811 995             Village of Mosteiros                     Phone 811 003

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BANK/BANCO:                 City of São Filipe                  Phone: 811 255                                           Village of  Mosteiros                  Phone: 831 022

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