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 The Natural Park of Fogo includes the whole area of the island above 1.500 meters in the oriental slope of the island, and above 1.800 meters in the western slope, the arch of the Mountain that limits the flaw scarp that forms Bordeira with the external flank and scarp, the internal plateau - designated Chã das Caldeiras - and the volcanic cone (2.829 m above the sea level). This central area of the Island of the Fogo is the highest point on the islands Cape Verde.
This Natural Park has an area of 8.469 and is distributed along the 3 municipal councils of the Island (Santa Catarina - 50%, Mosteiros - 28% and São Filipe - 22%).
Inside of the Park - Chã das Caldeiras - with a diameter of 9 km and a population of 1010 inhabitants lives on four villages: Bangaeira, Portela, Chã das Caldeiras and Covatina, they live essentially of agriculture and livestock.
Before the creation of the Natural Park of Fogo, the external flanks of the Bordeira (Border Slopes) were used by the shepherds of Chã and by other villages close to Chã. As pasturing space of bovid or the collect of pastu re, above all herbaceous, that grew spontaneously. Besides the herbaceous ones referred, the endemic species, as the Língua de Vaca (Echium vulcanorum Chev.), the lantisco (Periploca laevigata ssp. chevalieri Brow.), the losna (Artemisia gorgonum Webb) and endemic herbs like wild mustard (Diplotaxis gracilis (Webb) O. E. Schulz), piorno (Lotus jacobaeus L. var. jacobaeus), funcho (Tornabenea bischofii (J.A. Schmidt.) are used as pasture, above all in the periods of rain shortage.
The need to preserve and to monitor these species, as well as the endemic species, it motivated the creation of the Natural Park of the island of Fogo in 2003 through the law n.º 3/2003 of February 24th in partnership with the German Government.
Like this the Park´s administration has the task of together with the local community to establish an active participation that allows the protection of the environmental and recovery of the Natural Park in a reciprocal collaboration.
Geomorfology and Volcanology
Climate
Fauna
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CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 
