Farol da Ponta do Sinó (the Farol da Ponta do Sinó Lighthouse), is a lighthouse in the southernmost point of the island of Sal in northeastern Cape Verde, it is located 400 meters north of Ponta do Sinó and around 2 km southwest of the center of Santa Maria. Until 2003, the area featured nothing but small bushes and dirt roads, in the early 2010s, new hotels and villas (the nearest being Hotel Rio Funana (titled as Riu Funana, the Creole form, the name is African etymology) popped up north of the lighthouse and its communal limits spread to include the lighthouse and the whole portion.