Tarrafal de Monte Trigo
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| Coordinates: 16°57′32″N 25°18′36″W / 16.959°N 25.310°WCoordinates: 16°57′32″N 25°18′36″W / 16.959°N 25.310°W | |
| Country | Cape Verde |
| Island | Santo Antão |
| Municipality | Porto Novo |
| Civil parish | São João Baptista |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 841 |
Tarrafal de Monte Trigo is a settlement in the southwestern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. Its 2010 population was 841. It is situated on the coast, 27 km west of the island capital Porto Novo, the parish boundary with Santo André is around halfway to the north. The island is linked by a single dirt road connecting the east of the island, also a pathway connects with Monte Trigo to the north that takes 2h 30 min to reach. It also has a ferry service with Monte Trigo in the northwest of the island and its length is 40 minutes.
The valley consists of the agricultural groves, some farmlands and a some woods, much of the area are barren grasslands and the terrain consists of lava flows mainly dating back to the last eruption 200,000 years ago.
The Young Tarrafal Group is a rock formation made from the island's last eruption 200,000 years ago out of a plinian volcanic eruption. It consists of nephelite rocks.
Tarrafal de Monte Trigo was first settled sometimes around the 17th and the 18th century and was a fishing village, it was accessed by a pathway from the north of the island that was also used by cattle and horses. The settlement was mentioned as Terrafal in the 1747 French/Dutch map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin. The place's history was not understood in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. As with other parts of the island and the nation, the area including the village was struck by a famine (see Famine in Cape Verde) up to the 1950s. Later that time, a few people emigrated each year and continued after independence. After the island's new port was completed at Porto Novo, a dirt road would be completed and linked the south with Bolona in the mountains and Lajedo (at Ponte do Sul). Until 2000, the portion crossing the mountain was dirt, in 2002 the eastern stretch became paved, the paved road reached the summit area in 2007 and some 3 kilometers west as of 2016, the remainder remains unpaved and is one of the last roads in the country remain unpaved.
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