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São João

São João

São João, named for John the Baptist is a civil parish in the municipality of in the archipelago of the . It is the only civil parish in the municipality with a border on the summit of Pico.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of São João Baptista.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lajes do Pico.

Town
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is a town and municipality in the central . It is one of three municipalities of the island of . It has 4,342 inhabitants as of 2021, in an area of 155.31 km2. is situated 8 km east of São João.

São João

Latitude
38.41592° or 38° 24′ 57″ north
Longitude
-28.33751° or 28° 20′ 15″ west
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
Open location code
89CHCM86+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2147821068
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3372612
Wiki­data ID
Q2121723
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“São João” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “São João”
  • Cebuano: “São João”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Жуан (Лажеш-ду-Пику)”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Жуан”
  • Chinese: “São João”
  • Dutch: “Sao Joao (Lajes do Pico)”
  • Dutch: “São João”
  • French: “São João”
  • German: “São João”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “São João”
  • Portuguese: “Sao Joao (Lajes do Pico)”
  • Portuguese: “São João (Lajes do Pico)”
  • Portuguese: “Sao Joao”
  • Portuguese: “São João”
  • Russian: “Сан-Жуан”
  • Spanish: “São João”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Жуан (Лажеш-ду-Пику)”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Жуан”
  • Turkish: “Sao Joao”
  • Turkish: “São João”
  • “São João”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “São João”. Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.