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Português: Locação das Açores, de Madeira e das Canarias no oceano Atlántico norte. Español: Locación de las Azores, de Madeira y de las Canarias en el Atlántico norte. English: Location of the Portuguese Azores and Madeira and Spanish Canary Islands in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.. A small number of alleged hypogea (underground structures carved into rocks) have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria, and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2,000 years, implying a human presence on the island before ...
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The lake is situated within the caldera of the Sete Cidades Massif, an ancient volcano built on various layers of ash, pyroclasts and trachyte and basaltic lavas.It is a stratovolcano constructed from alternating phases of explosive and effusive ejecta, from dominantly basaltic pre-caldera eruptions, a trachytic caldera-forming stage and a post-caldera stage consisting of alternating trachytic ...
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.
Bathymetry image of the Azores Plateau with some of the Azores islands marked in yellow. The Azores Plateau or Azores Platform is an oceanic plateau encompassing the Azores archipelago and the Azores triple junction in the North Atlantic Ocean. [1]
Português: Antigo carro de bois com o condutor, Ilha Terceira, Açores. Note-se os bovinos da raça Ramo Grande, autóctone da ilha. Note-se os bovinos da raça Ramo Grande, autóctone da ilha. Date