Monte Trigo

Monte Trigo is the westernmost settlement on the island of Santo Antão and Cape Verde, also the whole of Africa together with the mainland and the islands. It is situated on the coast, at the foot of the Topo da Coroa, the highest mountain of the island. It is 28 km west of the island capital Porto Novo. The settlement is named after a nearby mountain lying to the northwest. It has a small port which are both used for fishing and ferry service with Tarrafal de Monte Trigo, one of only two in Cape Verde that serves different part of an island, the other being São Nicolau and once done on Sal and is the westernmost port in the whole of Africa together with the mainland and the islands. The two of the island's western ports were the leastly used but before the construction of Porto Novo in the island's southeast in 1962, it was the island's third most used port after Ribeira Grande and Ponta do Sol and once served boat routes with the nearby island of São Vicente.About the villageThe name etymology is likely being named after being in three parts "trigo" meaning the three sides in a form of a triangle centered at the bay or the peninsula.It is accessible only with a pathway with Tarrafal de Monte Trigo (2 hours, 30 minutes) or by boat (45 minutes).Agricultural lands dominate the coast and the small ravine to the north, barren grasslands and mountain slopes dominate the rest of the area.The village received 100% renewable energy on February 2012 which was the first location in the country to do so entirely, powered from a nearby plant at 25 kWp, under the SESAM-ER (Serviço Energético Sustentável para povoações rurais Isolados Mediante Micro-redes com Energias Renováveis na ilha de Santo Antão), it produced at 39 kWp.