Cabeço dos Tarrafes

Cabeço dos Tarrafes (Cape Verdean Creole, (written in ALUPEC): "Kabésa d Tarraf") is a village in the northern part of the island of Boa Vista. The town is located approximately 30 to 35 km E of the island capital of Sal Rei and around 3 km south of the village of Norte. It is one of the easternmost communities in Cape Verde. The village rarely offers a view of the island's tallest mountain, Estância de Baixo.

Nearest places

*Fundo das Figueiras, north
*Norte, north
*Estância de Baixo, south

Geography

The village is situated in the dry desert climate and it receives little or no precipitation annually. Farmlands are mainly of cattle and rarely some fruits and are nearly the size of the football field, many foodstuffs are received from the northern and the southern parts of the nation. The mountains that are mainly dry and contains a few palm trees and forests dominate the west, several are outside the settlement in the north and the south, and a small plain to the central and the eastern part strectching up to Morre Negro, its nearby lighthouse where the shoreline and the Atlantic Ocean lies to the east.

Other information

The village is in the island's low class. Most of the houses are either built with mud and brick or 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. 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.

ee also

*List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde