Cape Verde
Santiago
Tarrafal Municipality

Tarrafal

Tarrafal 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 .
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  • Type: Town with 13,500 residents
  • Description: settlement in Santiago, Cape Verde
  • Also known as: “Cidade de Tarrafal”, “Tarrafal, Cape Verde”, and “Vila do Tarrafal”
  • Postal code: 7110

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tarrafal concentration camp and Estádio de Mangue.

Museum
Photo: Gagum, CC BY 2.0.
Tarrafal was a concentration camp located in the village of , in the , 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 Tarrafal, Cape Verde nearly 100 meters north of the communal boundary of and just west of the Assomada-Tarrafal Road.

Peak
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a mountain in the northern part of the island of in . It lies 2.5 km north of the town of Tarrafal, overlooking the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chão Bom and Trás os Montes.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a settlement in the northern part of the island of , . It is situated near the west coast, 3 km southeast of Tarrafal 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. is situated 4½ km northeast of Tarrafal.

Tarrafal

Latitude
15.2784° or 15° 16′ 42″ north
Longitude
-23.7523° or 23° 45′ 8″ west
Population
13,500
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CV TAR
Open location code
797R76HX+93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1960686899
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3374166
Wiki­data ID
Q2311253
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Wolof—“Tarrafal” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Tarrafal, Cape Verde”
  • Bashkir: “Таррафал (Сантьягу)”
  • Bashkir: “Таррафал”
  • Catalan: “Tarrafal”
  • Cebuano: “Tarrafal”
  • Chinese: “塔拉法爾”
  • Dutch: “Tarrafal”
  • French: “Tarrafal”
  • German: “Tarrafal”
  • Greek: “Ταρραφάλ”
  • Hebrew: “טרפאל”
  • Italian: “Tarrafal”
  • Japanese: “タラファル”
  • Korean: “타하팔”
  • Mingrelian: “ტარაფალი (კაბო-ვერდე)”
  • Mingrelian: “ტარაფალი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarrafal”
  • Polish: “Tarrafal”
  • Portuguese: “Tarrafal”
  • Russian: “Таррафал”
  • Spanish: “Mangui”
  • Spanish: “Tarrafal”
  • Swahili: “Tarrafal, Cabo Verde”
  • Swedish: “Tarrafal”
  • Tatar: “Таррафал (Сантьягу)”
  • Tatar: “Таррафал”
  • Ukrainian: “Таррафал”
  • Wolof: “Tarrafal”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tarrafal”. Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.