Chã de Tanque
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| Coordinates: 15°05′32″N 23°42′09″W / 15.0922°N 23.7024°WCoordinates: 15°05′32″N 23°42′09″W / 15.0922°N 23.7024°W | |
| Country | Cape Verde |
| Island | Santiago |
| Municipality | Santa Catarina |
| Civil parish | Santa Catarina |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,164 |
Chã de Tanque or Chão de Tanque is a village in the westcentral part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. Its 2010 population was 1,164 making it the fourth largest in the municipality of Santa Catarina. It is situated 4 km west of Assomada, it is also south of Ribeirão Manuel and northwest of Palha Carga. The elevation is about 285 meters above sea level. It is nearly in the middle of the road linking Assomada and Porto Rincão. The built up area stretches for a kilometer along the main road.
The villages sits above Ribeira de Mato Sancho where it meets the Ribeirão Manuel and the remainder flows to the Atlantic as Ribeira das Águas Belas.
Agriculture dominates the area, once dominated by grasslands, it is mainly dominated by groves today.
A variant of tabanka is the Chã de Tanque variant used in music, it is common up to the areas surrounding the village.
Until 2008, it was the furthermost paved portion of the Assomada-Porto Rincão Road, today it is completely paved.
In 2011, a new museum opened named Muséu da Tabanka em Chão de Tanque not far from the village at Casa da Morgado, restored in 2009, a rural farmhouse built in the 19th century.
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