The salt ponds of Santa Maria (Portuguese: Salinas de Santa Maria) are a complex of salt evaporation ponds north of the city Santa Maria in the southernmost part of the island of Sal, Cape Verde.

Up to 30,000 tons of salt were shipped from Santa Maria each year.

[3] Most of the product was exported to Brazil, which was halted in 1887 when Brazil imposed a high tax on imported salt to protect its own salt production.

The town went into a deep decline, only to recover in 1920 when a Portuguese investor resumed salt production.

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