Levada dos Órgãos
| Levada dos Órgãos | |
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| Coordinates: 15°04′12″N 23°33′48″W / 15.07°N 23.5633°WCoordinates: 15°04′12″N 23°33′48″W / 15.07°N 23.5633°W | |
| Country | Cape Verde |
| Island | Santiago |
| Municipality | São Domingos |
| Civil parish | Nossa Senhora da Luz |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 378 |
Levada dos Órgãos is a village in the interior of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is situated about 3 km (4-5 km by road) east of João Teves and around 30 km northeast of the capital Praia. It is part of the municipality of São Lourenço dos Órgãos and the homonymous parish. Its 2010 population was 378. The village sits near Ribeira Seca, northeast it has been flooded with the Poilão Reservoir and includes the western portion covering about 7 hectares.
It is connected by a small road linking 2 km southwest with the Praia-Assomada-Tarrafal Route at Poilão Cabral and the (Assomada-)João Teves-Pedra Badejo Road over a kilometers nearly to the north.
Most of the area are hilly, a part of the area are mountainous. Agriculture as to that part of the island remains to be its main economy.
In 2007 after the completion of the dam, the northeastern part at Ribeira Seca became flooded and become the Poilão Reservoir it does not often mainly dries up as other later constructed dams on the island. The island has a dry climate with occasional torrential downpours. These cause the transport of large quantities of sediment into the reservoir and a study has found that without regular dredging, the storage capacity of the reservoir will be reduced by almost one half within seven years from around 2014, much of the portion at Levada dos Órgãos could not continue to be part of the reservoir.
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