What is Rhode Island famous for? Rhode Island is most well-known for being the smallest state in the United States with a total area of 1, 045 square miles and a width of only 37 miles. It is also the state with the longest official state name : State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
In English Cape Verde is the most westernly point of Africa, in Senegal. Verde is the word for the colour green in both Italian and Spanish. It's even spelled the same, maybe Homer had something when he claimed Spanish and Italian are the same language. :-) FunkinGoNuts Â· 1 decade ago.
Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1300. Today, Mesa Verde National Park protects over 4,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings.