Editing Cap-Vert

{{Short description|Headland in Senegal}}
{{About||the Atlantic island country|Cape Verde||Cape Verde (disambiguation)}}
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[[Image:STS054 STS054-94-32-north-south orientation-.jpg|thumb|Satellite image of Cap-Vert]]
[[Image:FootballeusesNgor.jpg|thumb|Children play [[association football|football]] on N'Gor Beach, at the northern tip of Cap-Vert.]]
'''Cap-Vert''', or the '''Cape Verde Peninsula''', and '''Kap Weert''' or '''Bopp bu Nëtëx''' (in [[Wolof language|Wolof]]), is a [[peninsula]] in [[Senegal]] and the [[Geography of Africa#Extreme points|westernmost point]] of the continent of Africa and of the [[Afro-Eurasia]] mainland. Portuguese explorers called it Cabo Verde or "Green Cape". The [[Cape Verde]] islands, {{convert|570|km}} further west, are named after the cape. [[Dakar]], the capital of Senegal, occupies parts including its southern tip.<ref>Roger J., Banton O., Barusseau J.-P., Castaigne P., Comte J.-C., Duvail C., Nehlig P., Noël B. J., Serrano O., Travi Y., ''Notice explicative de la cartographie multi-couches à 1/50 000 et 1/20 000 de la zone d’activité du Cap-Vert'', Ministère des Mines, de l’Industrie et des PME, Direction des Mines et de la Géologie, Dakar, 245 p., 2009d.</ref> The peninsula marks the border between [[Grande Côte]] to the north and [[Petite Côte]] to the south. It is delimited by two [[Cape (geography)|capes]], [[Pointe des Almadies]] to the northwest and cap Manuel to the southeast.

The larger of the [[Deux Mamelles]] volcanic hills in Dakar is topped by [[Les Mamelles Lighthouse]] at its highest point.

== History ==
It is identified with the '''Hesperu Ceras''' (literally "western horn") mentioned by Classical Graeco-Roman authors as the westernmost point of the African continent.

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Cap-Vert}}
* [https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=14.726830,-17.417793&spn=0.166014,0.234180&t=k&hl=en Satellite picture by Google Maps]

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{{Coord|14|44|41|N|17|31|13|W|region:SN_type:landmark|display=title}}

[[Category:Landforms of Senegal]]
[[Category:Peninsulas of Africa]]
[[Category:Dakar]]


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