Chalan Piao is a village on the southwestern area of
Saipan
Saipan ( ch, Sa’ipan, cal, Seipél, formerly in es, Saipán, and in ja, 彩帆島, Saipan-tō) is the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), commonwealth of the United States in the western Pa ...
.
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ch, Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; cal, Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonwea ...
. It is bordered on the north by
Chalan Kanoa
Chalan Kanoa ( Old Japanese name: 茶覧, ''Charan'') is one of the settlements on Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands. It is located in the southwest of the island. The village contains the island's central post office, as well as ...
, on the east by
As Perdido village and on the south by
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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village. To the west is the
Pacific Ocean
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"Chalan Piao" translated from the
Chamorro language
Chamorro (; ch, Finuʼ Chamorro, links=no (CNMI), (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people (about 25,800 people on Guam and about 32,200 in the rest of the Mariana Islands and elsewhere). It is the native and spoken ...
means ''bamboo road''. ''Chalan'' means road and ''piao'' means bamboo. The Chamorro language is spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of Saipan and the rest of the Mariana Islands, mainly Rota/Luta, Tinian and Guahan/Guam.
History
Chalan Piao likely started as a marine embayment and then became a sandy beach with a
brackish marsh
Brackish marshes develop from salt marshes where a significant freshwater influx dilutes the seawater to brackish levels of salinity. This commonly happens upstream from salt marshes by estuaries of coastal rivers or near the mouths of coastal r ...
. It is one of the earliest human settlements in the Marianas, being occupied c. 1731–1226 BC. Archaeological evidence from this period include redware pottery with lime-filled decorations.
Education
operates local public schools.
Hopwood Junior High School is located in Chalan Piao.
[CNMI PUBLIC SCHOOLS]
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References
Towns and villages in the Northern Mariana Islands
Saipan
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