title: Sotavento
text: # Sotavento
  
  Sotavento is a Portuguese and Spanish word meaning "leeward". Places with that name include:
  
  * Sotavento Algarvio, the eastern part of the Algarve region, Portugal, around Faro and Tavira
  * Sotavento Islands, the southern group of Cape Verde islands
  * Sotavento Region of the Mexican state of Veracruz
  