title: Ponta Leste
text: # Ponta Leste
  
  Ponta Leste (also: Ponta Calheta) is the easternmost point of the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It is 8 km east of Carriçal and 30 km east of Ribeira Brava. The point was mentioned in a map in a 1747 atlas collection by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "Oost-Hoek" (Dutch), "Pointe de l'Est" (French"). It was sometimes known as East Point in English.
  
  ## Lighthouse
  
  There is a lighthouse on the headland, focal height 73 metres, range 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi).
  
  