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Ilhéu de Cima Lighthouse

lighthouse in Cape Verde

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ33412172 ↗
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Ilhéu de Cima Lighthouse (Portuguese: Farol do Ilhéu de Cima) is a lighthouse on Ilhéu de Cima located about 80 m above sea level. The lighthouse is the only building inside the integral nature reserve Ilhéus do Rombo.

It is a small white tower 4 meters in height with a white lantern, the lighthouse is solar powered. The caretaker's house is next door. It flashes white lights every 12 seconds, its range is 9 nmi (17 km).

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“Ilhéu de Cima Lighthouse” enters the record as lighthouse in Cape Verde. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ilhéu, Cima and Lighthouse can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ilhéu de Cima Lighthouse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.