Lagoon of Fire
Lagoa do Fogo is a crater lake within the Água de Pau Massif stratovolcano in the center of the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: crater lake, on the island of São Miguel
- Also known as: “Lagoa do Fogo” and “Lake of Fire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Água de Pau Massif.
Água de Pau Massif
Volcano
Água de Pau Massif is a stratovolcanic complex, located in the central part of the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. More recognizable for the Lagoa do Fogo at its centre, the volcanic complex includes centuries of geomorphological structures that include lava domes, cones and encrusted lava flows that have marked its history from, the last, 45,000 years BC.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include São Miguel and Água de Pau.
São Miguel
Photo: Apeto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
São Miguel is the largest and most populous island of the Azores archipelago. Portuguese for Saint Michael, the island is also known by locals as "The Green Island". Most visitors arriving in the Azores will pass through São Miguel.
Água de Pau
Town
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY 2.0.
Água de Pau is a civil parish in the municipality of Lagoa in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 3,058, in an area of 17.46 km2. It contains the localities Água de Pau, Caloura, Cerco, Cinzeiro, Galera and Jubileu.
Vila Franca do Campo
Town
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vila Franca do Campo is a Portuguese town on the island of São Miguel in the Autonomous Region of the Azores. It covers an area of 78.00 km² and has a population of 10,323 inhabitants.
Lagoon of Fire
- Categories: volcanic crater lake and body of water
- Location: Água de Alto, Vila Franca do Campo Municipality, Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.76223° or 37° 45′ 44″ northLongitude
-25.476° or 25° 28′ 34″ westElevation
720 metres (2,362 feet)Open location code
899PQG6F+VHOpenStreetMap ID
way 26794042OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
3373057Wikidata ID
Q1800480
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Lagoon of Fire” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Lagoa do Fogo”
- Esperanto: “Lagoa do Fogo”
- Esperanto: “Laguno de Fajro”
- French: “Lagoa do Fogo”
- German: “Lagoa do Fogo”
- Japanese: “フォゴ湖”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lagoa do Fogo”
- Polish: “Lagoa do Fogo”
- Portuguese: “Lagoa do fogo”
- Portuguese: “Lagoa do Fogo”
- Portuguese: “Reserva Natural da Lagoa do Fogo”
- Portuguese: “Zona Especial de Conservação da Lagoa do Fogo (São Miguel)”
- Russian: “Лагоа-ду-Фогу”
- Russian: “Огненное озеро”
- Spanish: “Lagoa do Fogo”
- Spanish: “Laguna do Fogo”
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Highlights include Miradouro da Lagoa do Fogo and Barrosa.
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