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Ribeira Chã is a civil parish in the municipality of Lagoa in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It is located along a cliff that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. The population in 2011 was 396, in an area of 2.50 km². Ribeira Chã is the smallest parish by population and area in the municipality of Lagoa.HistoryRibeira Chã, or Ribeira das Lagens, was a short distance between Falcão da Ribeira do Pisão and the western edge of Vila Franca do Campo. The first person registered by Gaspar Frutuoso to reside in this zone was Melchior Dias, who married Brioljana Cabral, daughter of Isabel Nunes Velha