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The landing of the Spanish Tercios at Terceira during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580 An 1845 engraving of the island of São Miguel (west is up). In 1427, São Miguel became the second of the islands discovered by Gonçalo Velho Cabral to be settled by colonists from continental Portugal.
One of the park primary attractions is pool with naturally brown iron-rich thermal water at a temperature around 37 °C. [5] [4] It was built by Thomas Hickling in 1780 and enlarged in 1935 [3] The pool features stone carvings and is surrounded by a ring of araucaria trees. [6] Bathing is allowed, but requires a longer shower afterwards.
The islet seen from São Miguel, with Farilhão on the left. The islet is located between 500 metres (1,600 ft) and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) off the south-central coast of the island of São Miguel, adjacent the municipality, town, and port of Vila Franca do Campo.
The Arrifes-Covoada basin is the main bread-basket on the island of São Miguel, in addition to all the parishes located around the rim of the Sete Cidades Massif. [19] In 1999, 1039 companies had their operational seats within the borders of Ponta Delgada, roughly equal to 45.4% of the companies of the Azores. [19]
The Mosteiros Islets (Portuguese: Ilhéus dos Mosteiros; literally, Islets of the Monasteries) are four uninhabited rocky islets located about 0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km; 0.58 mi) from the settlement of Mosteiros, off the extreme northwestern coast of the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
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.