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Azores. / 38.66; -28.07. The Azores ( / əˈzɔːrz / ə-ZORZ, US also / ˈeɪzɔːrz /, AY-zorz; [4] [5] Portuguese: Açores, Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈsoɾɨʃ] ), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores ( Região Autónoma dos Açores ), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira ). It is an archipelago ...
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 ...
circa 12.5 hectares (0.048 sq mi) Created. 1780. ( 1780) Open. Yes. Website. www .parqueterranostra .com. The Terra Nostra Park ( Portuguese: Parque Terra Nostra) is a botanical garden in Furnas in the Povoação municipality on the Portuguese Azores island of São Miguel. [1]: [2]
Terceira ( Portuguese pronunciation: [tɨɾˈsɐjɾɐ]) is a volcanic island in the Azores archipelago, about a third of the way across the North Atlantic Ocean at a similar latitude to Portugal's capital Lisbon, and the island group is an insular part of Portugal. It is one of the larger islands of the archipelago, with a population of 53,311 ...
Sete Cidades Massif is a stratovolcanic complex, referring to a polygenetic volcano and caldera, located in western part of the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. More recognizable for the Lagoa das Sete Cidades at its centre, the volcanic complex includes centuries of geomorphological structures that include ...
Vila Franca Islet is the exposed remains of a Surtseyan volcanic cone [2] [3] of phreatomagmatic origin heavily eroded by the sea and seismic forces over time. It is composed mostly of basalt and palagonitic tuff, resulting in characteristic vertically fractured rock formations resembling columns. [2] The islet contains a few underwater caves.
Vila Franca do Campo ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvilɐ ˈfɾɐ̃kɐ ðu ˈkɐ̃pu] ⓘ) is a town and municipality in the southern part of the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese Autonomous Region of the Azores. The population of the municipality was 11,229 in 2011, [1] in an area of 77.97 km². [2] The town proper, which incorporates ...
Fajã do Ouvidor. / 38.67694°N 28.05306°W / 38.67694; -28.05306. The Fajã do Ouvidor is a lava field from Pico da Esperança when it was active, and the most recent from the collapsing cliffs on the northern coast of the civil parish of Norte Grande, in the municipality of Velas, island of São Jorge, in the Portuguese archipelago of ...