What is "salcete"

Salcette ( Portuguese: Salcete, , ) is a taluka (a unit of administration) of South Goa District in the Indian state of Goa. Its administrative and economic headquarters is Margão. It is largely coterminous with a region called Sashti, which comprised, by local tradition, sixty-six villages, hence the name. However, Sashti also included the now separate taluka of Mormugao. There are six communidades in Salcette namely— Raia, Margão, Loutulim, Curtorim, Verna, Colva, Betalbatim, Nuvem, and Benaulim. Salcette is bounded by Mormugao taluk to the northwest, Ponda taluk to the northeast and east, Quepem taluk to the east and south, and the Arabian Sea to the west.