Velas Municipality
Velas is a municipality in the São Jorge Island, in the Portuguese autonomous region of Azores. The municipality encompasses the western portion of the island, with its municipal seat in the town of Velas on the south coast, and is divided into six parishes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,400 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Velas” and “Velas, Azores”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Portão do Mar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santo Amaro and Fajã de João Dias.
Santo Amaro
Village
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Santo Amaro is a parish in the district of Velas in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 862, in an area of 22.53 km². It contains the localities Areias, Biscoitos, Boa Hora and Santo Amaro.
Fajã de João Dias
Hamlet
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
The Fajã de João Dias is a permanent debris field, built from the collapsing cliffs on the northern coast of the civil parish of Rosais, in the municipality of Velas, island of São Jorge, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Fajã de João Dias is situated 6 km north of Velas Municipality.
Velas Municipality
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.6798° or 38° 40′ 47″ northLongitude
-28.2053° or 28° 12′ 19″ westPopulation
5,400Elevation
658 metres (2,159 feet)Open location code
89CHMQHV+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 25270680OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
8010695Wikidata ID
Q1010468
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Waray—“Velas Municipality” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Velas”
- Cebuano: “Velas (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Velas”
- Chechen: “Велаш”
- Chinese: “Velas”
- Chinese: “韦拉什”
- Dutch: “Velas”
- French: “Velas”
- Galician: “Velas”
- German: “Velas”
- Hungarian: “Velas”
- Irish: “Velas”
- Italian: “Velas”
- Japanese: “ヴェーラス”
- Korean: “벨라스”
- Lithuanian: “Velašas”
- Lombard: “Velas”
- Malay: “Velas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Velas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Velas”
- Polish: “Velas”
- Portuguese: “Município de Velas”
- Portuguese: “Velas”
- Russian: “Велаш”
- Spanish: “Velas”
- Tatar: “Велаш”
- Turkish: “Velas”
- Ukrainian: “Велаш”
- Vietnamese: “Velas”
- Volapük: “Velas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Velas”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Igreja Matriz de São Jorge and Esquadra de Velas.
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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 “Velas Municipality”. Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.