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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 archipelago is an autonomous region of Portugal and home to just under 250 000 people. We can see the capital of the region, Ponta Delgada, in the bottom left of the image. The main transport hub of the Azores, João Paulo II de Ponta Delgada International Airport, is clearly visible in the same part of the image.
Notícia explicativa da Folha "A", da ilha S. Miguel (Açores) da Carta Geológica de Portugal na escala 1:50000. Serviços. Geológicos de Portugal, Lisboa. p. 22. Zbyszewsky, G. (1961). Étude geologique de l'ile de S. Miguel (Açores). Comunicações Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, 45l. pp. 5– 79. Global Volcanism Program: Azores
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Vila Franca Islet was discovered no later than 1537—the year written documents first attest to its existence—as early settlers of São Miguel moved west from their original settlements. [5] In the past the islet accommodated various human activities and uses, including a military fort, a port, vineyards, and a whale watch. [ 5 ]
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Faial da Terra is a civil parish in the municipality of Povoação on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 359, [1] in an area of 11.38 km 2. [2] It contains the localities Burguete, Faial da Terra, Outeiro, Rebentão, and Sanguinho.