Cabeço dos Tarrafes Kabésa d Tarraf
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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... :	Boa Vista Boa Vista, Cape Verde Boa Vista is the easternmost island of Cape Verde. It is located in the Barlavento group of the archipelago. The island is known for marine turtles and traditional music, as well as its ultramarathon and its sand dunes and beaches...
Municipality:	Boa Vista Boa Vista, Cape Verde Boa Vista is the easternmost island of Cape Verde. It is located in the Barlavento group of the archipelago. The island is known for marine turtles and traditional music, as well as its ultramarathon and its sand dunes and beaches...
Distance from the island capital of Sal Rei Sal Rei Sal Rei is a city on the northwestern coast of the island of Boa Vista in eastern Cape Verde. Sal Rei is the island's main urban settlement, and the 18th largest community in Cape Verde after Cidade Velha. It is also the seat of the Boa Vista Municipality... :	about 20 km ENE

Cabeço dos Tarrafes (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 :...

): Kabésa d Tarraf) is a village in the northern part of the island of Boa Vista

Boa Vista, Cape Verde

Boa Vista is the easternmost island of Cape Verde. It is located in the Barlavento group of the archipelago. The island is known for marine turtles and traditional music, as well as its ultramarathon and its sand dunes and beaches...

. The town is located approximately 30 to 35 km E of the island capital of Sal Rei

Sal Rei

Sal Rei is a city on the northwestern coast of the island of Boa Vista in eastern Cape Verde. Sal Rei is the island's main urban settlement, and the 18th largest community in Cape Verde after Cidade Velha. It is also the seat of the Boa Vista Municipality...

 and around 3 km south of the village of 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...

. 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

Estância de Baixo

Estância de Baixo is a settlement in the southeastern part of the island of Boa Vista...

.

Nearest places

• Fundo das Figueiras, north
• 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...
  
  , north
• Estância de Baixo
  Estância de Baixo
  Estância de Baixo is a settlement in the southeastern part of the island of Boa Vista...
  
  , 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

Morre Negro

Morre Negro is a point located in the west of the island of Boa Vista and it represents the island's easternmost point in Cape Verde. A small islet to the northeast is Cape Verde's easternmost point...

, its nearby lighthouse where the shoreline and the 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...

 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.

See also

• List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde