Tarrafal de Monte Trigo
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Tarrafal d Mont Trig
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| Country
: || Cape Verde
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| Island
: || Santo Antão
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| Municipality: || Porto Novo
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 50 km west of
Porto Novo
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Tarrafal d Mont Trig
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| Country
: || Cape Verde
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| Island
: || Santo Antão
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| Municipality: || Porto Novo
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 50 km west of
Porto Novo
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Tarrafal d Mont Trig
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! align="center" colspan="2" | Statistics
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| Country
: || Cape Verde
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| Island
: || Santo Antão
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| Municipality: || Porto Novo
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 50 km west of
Porto Novo
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| Altitude:
Lowest:
Centre:
Highest || Atlantic Ocean
approximately 5 m
around 1,400 m
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Tarrafal de Monte Trigo or simply Tarrafal (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC
: Tarrafal d Mont Trig) is a village in the island of Santo Antão. Tarrafal serves the road linking to the rest of the island as well as Norte
, the northeastern part of the island and the island capital Porto Novo
and a dirt road north to Monte Trigo
. Tarrafal de Monte Trigo is the second westernmost settlement in all of Africa
, it is geographically after Monte Trigo
.
The village is in the island's low class. Most of the houses are built with stone and concrete, several houses are built with either steel reinforced concrete or with stone and wood. All of its population are farmers and are based in agriculture where banana plantations, pineapple and other crops are common as well as fishing. Some farms are in the form of paddies and stone walls. However, a part of the needy materials comes from the island capital, the island capital and the diaspora. But for other needs, electricity, communications and appliances are partially available in the area as well as phone lines since the late-20th century. A part of the necessities also comes from the island capital.
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Tarrafal d Mont Trig
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| Country
Country
A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...
: || Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
: || Santo Antão
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| Municipality: || Porto Novo
Porto Novo, Cape Verde
Porto Novo is the westernmost municipality in Cape Verde and all of Africa but not the mainland. It is a town and a municipality in the island of Santo Antão of Barlavento. It covers two-thirds of the island and is home to one-third of the population...
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 50 km west of
Porto Novo
Porto Novo, Cape Verde
Porto Novo is the westernmost municipality in Cape Verde and all of Africa but not the mainland. It is a town and a municipality in the island of Santo Antão of Barlavento. It covers two-thirds of the island and is home to one-third of the population...
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Tarrafal d Mont Trig
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| Country
Country
A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...
: || Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
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| Island
Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
: || Santo Antão
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| Municipality: || Porto Novo
Porto Novo, Cape Verde
Porto Novo is the westernmost municipality in Cape Verde and all of Africa but not the mainland. It is a town and a municipality in the island of Santo Antão of Barlavento. It covers two-thirds of the island and is home to one-third of the population...
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 50 km west of
Porto Novo
Porto Novo, Cape Verde
Porto Novo is the westernmost municipality in Cape Verde and all of Africa but not the mainland. It is a town and a municipality in the island of Santo Antão of Barlavento. It covers two-thirds of the island and is home to one-third of the population...
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Tarrafal d Mont Trig
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| Country
Country
A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...
: || Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
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| Island
Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
: || Santo Antão
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| Municipality: || Porto Novo
Porto Novo, Cape Verde
Porto Novo is the westernmost municipality in Cape Verde and all of Africa but not the mainland. It is a town and a municipality in the island of Santo Antão of Barlavento. It covers two-thirds of the island and is home to one-third of the population...
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| Distance from the island capital: || about 50 km west of
Porto Novo
Porto Novo, Cape Verde
Porto Novo is the westernmost municipality in Cape Verde and all of Africa but not the mainland. It is a town and a municipality in the island of Santo Antão of Barlavento. It covers two-thirds of the island and is home to one-third of the population...
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| Altitude:
Lowest:
Centre:
Highest || Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
approximately 5 m
around 1,400 m
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Tarrafal de Monte Trigo or simply Tarrafal (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC
ALUPEC
The Alfabeto Unificado para a Escrita do Caboverdiano , commonly known as ALUPEC, is the alphabet that was officially recognized by the Cape Verdean government to write Cape Verdean Creole.- Description :...
: Tarrafal d Mont Trig) is a village in the island of Santo Antão. Tarrafal serves the road linking to the rest of the island as well as Norte
Norte, Cape Verde
Norte is a village in the east-northeastern part of the island of Boa Vista. The village is around 35 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and it is linked with the island's major road with Sal Rei and a remote road to Estância de Baixo and Morro Negro a few kilometres to the...
, the northeastern part of the island and the island capital Porto Novo
Porto Novo, Cape Verde
Porto Novo is the westernmost municipality in Cape Verde and all of Africa but not the mainland. It is a town and a municipality in the island of Santo Antão of Barlavento. It covers two-thirds of the island and is home to one-third of the population...
and a dirt road north to Monte Trigo
Monte Trigo
Monte Trigo is the entire Africa's westernmost community and settlement in the island of Santo Antão located in the western portion in Cape Verde....
. Tarrafal de Monte Trigo is the second westernmost settlement in all of Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, it is geographically after Monte Trigo
Monte Trigo
Monte Trigo is the entire Africa's westernmost community and settlement in the island of Santo Antão located in the western portion in Cape Verde....
.
Geography
The mountains dominate the area to the eastern and the northeastern parts, farmlands groves dominate the valley areas and are located in slopey surfaces, grasslands with barren rocks and bushes covers the rest of the area and several trees dominate the southern part. Tarrafal de Monte Trigo has a beach in which the soil color is black, it stretches for nearly 1.5 km and its width is between 50 to 70 m. The mountain cliffs lies to the southern and the northern portions. Cliffs and steep and treacherous ledges dominate the edges of its valley areas. Tarrafal features a port in which all of its boats are used for fishing.The village is in the island's low class. Most of the houses are built with stone and concrete, several houses are built with either steel reinforced concrete or with stone and wood. All of its population are farmers and are based in agriculture where banana plantations, pineapple and other crops are common as well as fishing. Some farms are in the form of paddies and stone walls. However, a part of the needy materials comes from the island capital, the island capital and the diaspora. But for other needs, electricity, communications and appliances are partially available in the area as well as phone lines since the late-20th century. A part of the necessities also comes from the island capital.
External links
- Photos of Tarrafal de Monte Trigo at ecaboverde.com - in the most spoken languages in the world including EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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and PortuguesePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
See also
- List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde