Rabil, Cape Verde
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| Coordinates: 16°07′44″N 22°53′13″W / 16.129°N 22.887°WCoordinates: 16°07′44″N 22°53′13″W / 16.129°N 22.887°W | |
| Country | Cape Verde |
| Island | Boa Vista |
| Municipality | Boa Vista |
| Civil parish | Santa Isabel |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,248 |
| Postal code | 5110, 5111 |
Rabil is a town on the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde. It was the island's former capital. Rabil is the island's second largest town, located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei. Its 2010 population was 1,248. The island's airport, Aristides Pereira International Airport, is situated near the town center towards the west.. Rabil is connected with the branch road linking the road connecting Rabil and Fundo das Figueiras and the east of the island, it connects with the road linking Sal Rei and Curral Velho to the south as well as Povoação Velha.
Not only it includes the airport, the built up area-greenspace includes the remaining west of Cape Verde's longest river, Ribeira do Rabil (in which the settlement is named after), sometimes known as Ribeira d'Água and its Important Bird Area and into the newly-created resorts.
The town also has a foreign consulate, one of three in Cape Verde, the French consulate of the islands of Boa Vista and Maio. The only foreign consulate located in Rabil.
Both airport serves and tourism are its main industry.
In the lower part of the river, the area had no forests until the 1990s, today, most of that section are forested up to the area of the airport.
Two beaches are in the west of Rabil including Praia da Boca de Salina and the northern part of Praia da Chave. Hotels and villas west of town include Karamboa featuring Arabesque-Moorish architecture and several in the subdivision of Cabeçadas including the Royal Decameron and Iberostar Club Boa Vista (or Rabil Resort). The first ones were built in 2003 or 2004 and the remainder in around 2010. Restaurants are also featured in that area, the most notable is Sodade di nha Terra
In September 2012, flash floods occurred in Rabil's stream which removed the bridge connecting the island capital of Sal Rei and the rest of the island,, the flooding occurred about a year after the opening of another highway to the north through Bofareira and close to its northern shores which avoided cutting off access between the northwest and other parts of the island.
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