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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. The island covers 760 km 2 (290 sq mi) and has around 140,000 inhabitants, with 45,000 people residing in Ponta Delgada, the ...
This is a list of places on land below mean sea level. Places artificially created such as tunnels, mines, basements, and dug holes, or places under water, or existing temporarily as a result of ebbing of sea tide etc., are not included. Places where seawater and rainwater is pumped away are included.
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 ...
If you love the beach and being close to the sea, Positano, Mallorca, and Madeira are calling your name. If you prefer mountainous landscapes, the Dolomites, Schwangau, Germany, and Isle of Skye ...
When there are 195 vastly different countries, it seems nearly impossible to narrow down a list of the most beautiful places in the world. Each country has something unique and downright stunning ...
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.
San Juan Islands, Washington. 172 islands and reefs make up San Juan County, but you only can get to four by ferry (San Juan Island, Orcas Island, Lopez Island, and Shaw Island). With average ...
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 ...