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The Azores are divided into 19 municipalities (concelhos); each municipality is further divided into freguesias (civil administrative parishes), of which there is a total of 156 in all of the Azores. There are six cities ( cidades ) in the Azores: Ponta Delgada , Lagoa and Ribeira Grande on the island of São Miguel; Angra do Heroísmo and ...
São Miguel Island ( pronounced [ˈsɐ̃w miˈɣɛl]; Portuguese for "Saint Michael"), nicknamed "The Green Island" ( Ilha Verde ), is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The island covers 760 km 2 (290 sq mi) and has around 140,000 inhabitants, with 45,000 people residing in Ponta Delgada, the ...
critical/endangered. Protected. 620 km 2 (26%) [1] The Azores temperate mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of southwestern Europe. It encompasses the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. These volcanic islands are an autonomous region of Portugal, and lie 1500 km west of the Portuguese mainland.
Ponta Delgada ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpõtɐ ðɛlˈɣaðɐ] ⓘ; lit. '"Thin Cape"') is the largest municipality ( concelho) and executive capital of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in Portugal. It is located on São Miguel Island, the largest and most populous in the archipelago.
Faial Island ( Portuguese pronunciation: [fɐˈjal] ), also known in English as Fayal, is a Portuguese island of the Central Group (Portuguese: Grupo Central) of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean. The Capelinhos Volcano, the westernmost point of the island, may be considered the westernmost point of Europe (if the Monchique Islet, near Flores ...
Corvo Island ( Portuguese: Ilha do Corvo, pronounced [ˈiʎɐ ðu ˈkoɾvu] ⓘ ), literally the Island of the Crow, is the smallest and the northernmost island of the Azores archipelago and the northernmost in Macaronesia. It has a population of approximately 384 inhabitants (as of 2021) making it the smallest single municipality in the Azores ...
The following article describes the history of the Azores, an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada .
Ribeira Grande, Azores. / 37.82250°N 25.51806°W / 37.82250; -25.51806. Ribeira Grande ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁiˈβɐjɾɐ ˈɣɾɐ̃dɨ] ⓘ) is a municipality in the northern part of the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese Azores. The population in 2011 was 32,112, [1] in an area of 180.15 km 2. [2]