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Morro negro
Morro Negro is a hill, elevation 156 m, located near the east coast of the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde. The nearest village is Cabeça dos Tarrafes, 5.5 km to the northwest. There is a lighthouse on the hill (one of the island's two lighthouses). Surrounding the mountain is lPonta do Roque (a rocky point) is its nearest promontory and a beach neamed Cruzinha Brito. A salinary marsh and a lagoon dominates the southeast of the area .
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The area forms a part of a nature reserve named Tartaruga (Tartaruga Nature Reserve, Portuguese: Reserva Natural Tartaruga), rarely known as the Morro Negro Turtle Reserve, Portuguese for turtle which protects the area's turtle population especially in its beaches. It forms a large space alongside the coast and partly interior that is parallel with its length and width dominating the southeast of the island. Its total area is about 15,000 hectares, of which 1,439 hectares are terrestrial and 13,436 hectares are marine, its length is about 5 km or 3 nautical miles from the shore.