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 ...

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. It is bordered on the north by Chalan Kanoa, on the east by

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village and on the south by

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village. To the west is the

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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 l ...

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

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. 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

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operates local public schools.

Hopwood Junior High School Hopwood Middle School, formerly Hopwood Junior High School, is a secondary school in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, a part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System. Hopwood Junior High School (HJHS) was founded i ...

is located in Chalan Piao.CNMI PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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References

Towns and villages in the Northern Mariana Islands Saipan {{NorthernMarianas-geo-stub