Criação Velha
Criação Velha is a civil parish in the municipality of Madalena on the island of Pico in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 768, in an area of 18.36 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ulrich Thumult, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Nossa Senhora das Dores and Gruta das Torres.
Gruta das Torres
Cave
Photo: Ulrich Thumult, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gruta das Torres, is a lava cave, a geological formation of volcanic origin formed from the flow and cooling of subterranean magma rivers. This formation is located outside the parish of Criação Velha, in the municipality of Madalena, on the western flanks of the island of Pico. Gruta das Torres is situated 3 km southeast of Criação Velha.
Chapel of Santo António (Madalena do Pico)
Church
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Chapel of Santo António (Madalena do Pico) is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Madalena and Bandeiras.
Madalena
Town
Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY 2.0.
Madalena is a municipality along the western coast of the island of Pico, in the Portuguese Azores. It has 6,332 inhabitants as of 2021, in an area of 147.12 km2. Madalena is situated 3 km north of Criação Velha.
Bandeiras
Village
Photo: Zeorymer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bandeiras is a civil parish in the municipality of Madalena on the island of Pico in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 626, in an area of 22.21 km². Bandeiras is situated 7 km northeast of Criação Velha.
Criação Velha
- Type: Village
- Description: civil parish in Madalena
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Criação Velha, Madalena Municipality, Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.50911° or 38° 30′ 33″ northLongitude
-28.52869° or 28° 31′ 43″ westElevation
21 metres (69 feet)Open location code
89CHGF5C+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 419259948OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Criação Velha” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Criação Velha”
- Cebuano: “Criação Velha”
- Chechen: “Криасан-Велья”
- Chinese: “Criação Velha”
- Dutch: “Criação Velha”
- French: “Criação Velha”
- German: “Criação Velha”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Criação Velha”
- Portuguese: “Criacao Velha”
- Portuguese: “Criação Velha”
- Russian: “Криасан-Велья”
- Russian: “Крьясан-Велья”
- Spanish: “Criacao Velha”
- Spanish: “Criacão Velha”
- Spanish: “Criaçao Velha”
- Spanish: “Criação Velha”
- Tatar: “Криасан-Велья”
- Turkish: “Criação Velha”
- Turkish: “Croca”
- “Criação Velha”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Junta de Freguesia de Criação Velha and Império da Criação Velha.
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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 “Criação Velha”. Photo: Ulrich Thumult, CC BY-SA 2.0.