Tarrafal Municipality
Tarrafal is a concelho of Cape Verde. It is situated in the northern part of the island of Santiago. Its seat is the town Tarrafal. Its population was 18,565 at the 2010 census, and its area is 120.8 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: concelho of Cape Verde with 18,600 residents
- Description: municipality on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde
- Also known as: “Tarrafal” and “Tarrafal, Cape Verde”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tarrafal concentration camp and Estádio de Mangue.
Tarrafal concentration camp
Museum
Tarrafal was a concentration camp located in the village of Chão Bom, in the Municipality of Tarrafal, on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. It was established in 1936, during a reorganization process of the Portuguese Estado Novo prison system, with the goal of incarcerating political and social prisoners.
Estádio de Mangue
Stadium
Estádio de Mangue or Estádio Municipal do Tarrafal is a multi-purpose stadium in the neighborhood of Mangue in Tarrafal, Cape Verde nearly 100 meters north of the communal boundary of Chão Bom and just west of the Assomada-Tarrafal Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tarrafal and Chão Bom.
Tarrafal
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Tarrafal is a city in the northern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 6,656. It is a fishing port situated on the northwestern coast. It constitutes the seat of the Tarrafal Municipality.
Chão Bom
Suburb
Chão Bom is a settlement in the northern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is situated near the west coast, 3 km southeast of Tarrafal on the main road south to Assomada and Praia.
Trás os Montes
Village
Trás os Montes is a settlement in the northern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. In 2010 its population was 464. It is situated 4 km northeast of Tarrafal.
Tarrafal Municipality
- Location: Cape Verde, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wolof—“Tarrafal Municipality” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تارفال”
- Armenian: “Տարրաֆալ”
- Asturian: “Tarrafal”
- Bengali: “তারাফাল”
- Breton: “Tarrafal”
- Bulgarian: “Тарафал”
- Catalan: “Tarrafal”
- Cebuano: “Concelho do Tarrafal”
- Chinese: “塔拉法尔县”
- Chinese: “塔拉法爾縣”
- Danish: “Tarrafal”
- Dutch: “Tarrafal”
- Finnish: “Tarrafal”
- French: “Tarrafal”
- German: “Tarrafal”
- German: “Vila do Tarrafal”
- Greek: “Δήμος Ταρραφάλ”
- Gujarati: “ટેરેફલ”
- Hindi: “तार्राफल”
- Indonesian: “Tarrafal, Tanjung Verde”
- Indonesian: “Tarrafal”
- Italian: “contea di Tarrafal”
- Italian: “Contea di Tarrafal”
- Japanese: “タラファル”
- Japanese: “タラファル基礎自治体”
- Kannada: “ಟರ್ರಫಾಲ್”
- Korean: “타하팔시”
- Latvian: “Tarafala”
- Lithuanian: “Tarafalas”
- Lithuanian: “Tarafalio savivaldybė”
- Lithuanian: “Tarafalis”
- Lithuanian: “Tarafalo savivaldybė”
- Low German: “Tarrafal”
- Malay: “Tarrafal”
- Marathi: “तारराफल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarrafal”
- Norwegian: “Tarrafal”
- Persian: “شهرداری تارفال”
- Polish: “Tarrafal”
- Portuguese: “Concelho do tarrafal”
- Portuguese: “Município do Tarrafal”
- Portuguese: “Tarrafal”
- Russian: “Таррафал”
- Sinhala: “ටර්රෆල්”
- Spanish: “Tarrafal”
- Swedish: “Concelho do Tarrafal”
- Tamil: “டர்ரபால்”
- Telugu: “టారాాపాల్”
- Thai: “ทาร์ราฟาล”
- Turkish: “Tarrafal”
- Ukrainian: “Таррафал”
- Urdu: “تارافال، کیپ ورڈی”
- Urdu: “تارافال”
- Vietnamese: “Tarrafal”
- Wolof: “Tarrafal (dëkkaan)”
- Wolof: “Tarrafal”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ganxemba de Trás and Ganxemba.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Toiro Bravo and Monte Covado.
Cape Verde: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Praia, Cidade Velha, Mindelo, and Tarrafal.
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