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The population in 2011 was 793, [1] in an area of 19.19 km 2. [2] It is one of the smallest parishes of Ponta Delgada by population, although the largest in area. It contains the localities Cerrado da Ladeira, Cerrado das Freiras and Sete Cidades.
Ponta Delgada, on São Miguel Island, is the largest city in the Azores. Angra do Heroísmo, on Terceira Island, is UNESCO World Heritage. According to the 2019 Census, population in the Azores was 242,796. [63]
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 ...
Colonized by Portugal in the early 15th century (the Vikings were rumored to have stopped by, too), today the Azores are an autonomous territory with a population of 242,796 (about two-thirds that ...
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.
Flores Island (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfloɾɨʃ]) is an island of the Western Group (Grupo Ocidental) of the Azores. It has an area of 143 km 2 , a population of 3428 inhabitants, and, together with Corvo Island of the western archipelago, lies within the North American Plate .
Santa Cruz das Flores is a civil parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz das Flores, Azores, Portugal.The population in 2021 was 1,552, [1] in an area of 39.68 km². [2] It is the largest population center in the Western Group of the Portuguese Azores, concentrating all governmental and judicial services of the island.
Corvo Island (Portuguese: Ilha do Corvo, pronounced [ˈiʎɐ ðu ˈkoɾvu], lit. ' 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 435 inhabitants (as of 2023) [3] making it the smallest single municipality in the Azores and in Portugal.