Fontainhas - Santo Antão

At Fontainhas, north of Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde.

At northern Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde.

Fontainhas - on northern Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde. Plenty of terraces were made on the ground to enable agriculture.

Fontainhas is a village on northern Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde. It stands above a deep valley and soil is very fertile. A hard work of making terraces on steep slopes enabled agriculture.

At the north of Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde, the village of Fontainhas stands on a steep mountainside, above a deep valley. To make possible agriculture on its fertile soil, many terraces were made on steep slopes. National Geographic included Fontainhas on the top-ten of most beautiful places in the world.