Tarrafal Municipality

Tarrafal is a concelho of . It is situated in the northern part of the island of . Its seat is the town . Its population was 18,565 at the 2010 census, and its area is 120.8 km2.
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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.

Museum
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Tarrafal was a concentration camp located in the village of , in the Municipality of Tarrafal, on the 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.

Stadium
or Estádio Municipal do Tarrafal is a multi-purpose stadium in the neighborhood of Mangue in nearly 100 meters north of the communal boundary of and just west of the Assomada-Tarrafal Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tarrafal and Chão Bom.

Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in the northern part of the island of , . In 2010 its population was 6,656. It is a fishing port situated on the northwestern coast. It constitutes the seat of the Municipality.

Suburb
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is a settlement in the northern part of the island of , . It is situated near the west coast, 3 km southeast of on the main road south to and .

Village
is a settlement in the northern part of the island of , . In 2010 its population was 464. It is situated 4 km northeast of .

Tarrafal Municipality

Latitude
15.2667° or 15° 16′ north
Longitude
-23.7167° or 23° 43′ west
Population
18,600
Elevation
159 metres (522 feet)
Open location code
797R778M+M8
Geo­Names ID
3374161
Wiki­data ID
Q499598
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wolof—“Tarrafal Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ታራፋል”
  • Arabic: “تارفال”
  • Armenian: “Տարրաֆալ”
  • Asturian: “Tarrafal”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tarrafal”
  • Bengali: “তারাফাল”
  • Breton: “Tarrafal”
  • Bulgarian: “Тарафал”
  • Catalan: “Tarrafal”
  • Cebuano: “Concelho do Tarrafal”
  • Chinese: “塔拉法尔”
  • Chinese: “塔拉法爾”
  • Danish: “Tarrafal”
  • Dutch: “Tarrafal”
  • Finnish: “Tarrafal”
  • French: “Tarrafal”
  • German: “Tarrafal”
  • German: “Vila do Tarrafal”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Ταρραφάλ”
  • Gujarati: “ટેરેફલ”
  • Hausa: “Tarrafal”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Tarrafal”
  • Kannada: “ಟರ್ರಫಾಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Тарафал”
  • Kirghiz: “Тарафал”
  • Korean: “타하팔시”
  • Latvian: “Tarafala”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarafalas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarafalio savivaldybė”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarafalis”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarafalo savivaldybė”
  • Low German: “Tarrafal”
  • Malay: “Tarrafal”
  • Marathi: “तारराफल”
  • Minangkabau: “Munisipalitas Tarrafal, Tanjuang Verde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarrafal”
  • Norwegian: “Tarrafal”
  • Oromo: “Tarrafal”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਰਾਫਾਲ”
  • Persian: “تارافال”
  • Persian: “شهرداری تارفال”
  • Polish: “Tarrafal”
  • Portuguese: “Concelho do tarrafal”
  • Portuguese: “Município do Tarrafal”
  • Portuguese: “Tarrafal”
  • Pushto: “ټارافال”
  • Russian: “Таррафал”
  • Sinhala: “ටර්රෆල්”
  • Somali: “Tarrafal”
  • Spanish: “Tarrafal”
  • Swahili: “Tarrafal”
  • Swedish: “Concelho do Tarrafal”
  • Tajik: “Тарафал”
  • Tamil: “டர்ரபால்”
  • Tatar: “Tarrafal”
  • Telugu: “టారాాపాల్”
  • Thai: “เทศบาลตาราฟัล”
  • Turkish: “Tarrafal”
  • Ukrainian: “Таррафал”
  • Urdu: “تارافال، کیپ ورڈی”
  • Urdu: “تارافال”
  • Uzbek: “Tarrafal”
  • Vietnamese: “Tarrafal”
  • Wolof: “Tarrafal (dëkkaan)”
  • Wolof: “Tarrafal”

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