 São Miguel on a NASA satellite photo, with North to the top.
 Eastern São Miguel landscape
 The Sete Cidades twin lakes, with the town of Sete Cidades to the left São Miguel Island (Portuguese for Saint Michael), also known as the "Green Island," is the largest (759 km2; 293 sq mi) and most populous of the Azores Islands. The island has around 140,000 inhabitants, most of whom live in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, the most populous place in the islands. The Sete Cidades lagoons are formed by two craters that have a perimeter of 12 km (7.5 miles). The name of inhabitants are known as Micaelense. Cropped from Image:Azores_satellite_photo-NASA.jpg This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
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Portuguese) are an archipelago of Portuguese islands situated in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America. ...
This article is about a city in the Azores. ...
Sete Cidades (Seven Cities) is one of the most beautiful natural settings in the Azores, composed of two lakes in the center of a volcanic crater about three miles across. ...
Geography São Miguel is 90 km from east to west, and between 8 and 15 km wide. Named the "Green Island", São Miguel is largely covered with fields and meadows in the lowlands, and laurisilva forests in the hills. Geysers and hot springs (caldeiras) are spread over the island, which is composed of an old solid mass that strecthes from Povoação to Nordeste. São Miguel has 3 stratovolcanoes and caldeiras, Sete Cidades, Fogo and Furnas. The volcanic masses are connected between the alignments of the cone-like mass that are made up of peaks. Laurisilva is a type of humid subtropical forest found on several of the Macaronesian islands of the north Atlantic, namely the Azores, Madeira Islands, and the Canary Islands. ...
Clepsydra Geyser in Yellowstone A geyser is a special type of hot spring that erupts periodically, ejecting a column of hot water and steam into the air. ...
Green Dragon Spring at Norris Geyser A hot spring is a place where warm or hot groundwater issues from the ground on a regular basis for at least a predictable part of the year, and is significantly above the ambient ground temperature (which is usually around 55~57 F or...
Furnas is a parish in the district of Povoação in the Azores. ...
The peak areas which is located between Sete Cidades and Fogo composes of 270 monogenic volcanoes. They are primarily made up of basaltic cones which was fomed during Strombolian and Hawaiian-style eruptions. It is the most recent area oin the island. The youngest volcanoes are relavitely well dated. It possibly countes 19 eruptions which have occurred 3,000 years ago. One eruption was historical and was known as Fogo 2 occurred in 1652. Basalt Basalt is an extrusive igneous rock, sometimes porphyritic, and is often both fine-grained and dense. ...
Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ...
Cities and towns:  Village Mosteiros on the northwestern coast This article is about a city in the Azores. ...
There is also Ribeira Grande in Cape Verde, see Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde Ribeira Grande (Portuguese for large river) is a city on the southwest-central part of São Miguel Island in the Azores It has a population of 28,482 (as of 2001). ...
Furnas is a parish in the district of Povoação in the Azores. ...
Sete Cidades (Seven Cities) is one of the most beautiful natural settings in the Azores, composed of two lakes in the center of a volcanic crater about three miles across. ...
Municipalities This article is about a city in the Azores. ...
Povoação (Portuguese for of the fields) is a city on the southern part of São Miguel Island in the Azores It has a population of 6,726 (as of 2001). ...
There is also Ribeira Grande in Cape Verde, see Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde Ribeira Grande (Portuguese for large river) is a city on the southwest-central part of São Miguel Island in the Azores It has a population of 28,482 (as of 2001). ...
History São Miguel was the first of the Azores islands to be colonised, by the Portuguese in 1433. Events Births June 23 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany Kettil Karlsson Vasa, later Regent of Sweden. ...
Originally, São Miguel was two islands. In 1563, the island was joined by a volcanic eruption. This article is about volcanoes in geology. ...
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