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Flores (Portuguese for "flowers") is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia.
Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the Alor archipelago.
To the south, across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.
The FloresIsland is said to be one of the most beautiful of the Azores Islands, of which it is part of the western group.
The island was first settled by the Flemish nobleman William van der Haegen (Guilherme da Silveira), after having a meeting with Dona Maria Vilhena, who administered the island in the name of her young son, Rui de Teles.
He later left Flores because it was too isolated and lay on no naval routes to the rest of Europe; the island was also too infertile and windy, the export of valuable colorful pastel could have secured.
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