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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.
Map of Channel Islands Satellite picture Aerial view of San Miguel NPS Map: San Miguel Island San Miguel Island ( Chumash : Tuqan ) [ 1 ] is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands , located across the Santa Barbara Channel in the Pacific Ocean , within Santa Barbara County , California . [ 2 ]
Nordeste (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˌnɔɾˈðɛʃtɨ] ⓘ; Portuguese for northeast, hence that part of the island) is a municipality on the northeastern part of São Miguel Island in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 4,937, [ 1 ] in an area of 101.47 square kilometres (39.18 sq mi).
The most volcanically active island is São Miguel, shown above in these images acquired on December 9, 2018, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. At 760 square kilometers (290 square miles), São Miguel is the largest of the nine Azores islands and home to half of its people—most of whom live in Ponta Delgada, the economic ...
The garden's inception dates back to 1780, when the then United States Consul on the island of São Miguel, Thomas Hickling, in 1775 built his summer residence here, which later became known as Yankee Hall. [3] Only in the middle of the 19th century did the area of two hectares gradually increase.
The Sete Cidades Massif occupies the northwestern portion of the island and corresponds to a circular central caldera 6 by 5 kilometres (3.7 mi × 3.1 mi), whose interior is occupied by various lakes and volcanic cones of pumice, lava domes and maars.
The coastal mists of the parish of Candelária. It is located in the southwestern part of the island of São Miguel, connected by a regional road network (the Estrada Regional E.R.1-1ª) to regional centres of Mosteiros, Ginetes (both to the west), Feteiras (to the east) and indirectly to Ponta Delgada, accessed daily by bus transport.
A partial view of the built-up area of the village of Praia Formoso, looking over into the fishing port/beach The beach and cliffs of the Praia dos Moinhos, one of the few white-sand beaches on the island of São Miguel