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Horta Municipality

Faial is an island in the archipelago, an autonomous region of . Horta, the legislative capital of the Azores, is the sole municipality on the island.
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  • Type: City with 5,550 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Horta” and “Horta, Azores”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort of Santa Cruz and Botanical Garden of Faial.

Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, is a 16th-century fortification located in the civil parish of , municipality of Horta, on the island of in the .

Garden
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
The is an ecological garden, component of the Faial Nature Park, established in 1986 to educate and protect the biodiversity common on , an island of the archipelago.

Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
The is a watchtower located in the civil parish of , in the municipality of Horta.

Horta Municipality

Latitude
38.5368° or 38° 32′ 13″ north
Longitude
-28.6301° or 28° 37′ 48″ west
Population
5,550
Elevation
521 metres (1,709 feet)
Open location code
89CHG9P9+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25270684
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8010699
Wiki­data ID
Q990385
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Horta Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أرتة”
  • Arabic: “أُرتة”
  • Arabic: “هورتا”
  • Asturian: “Horta”
  • Basque: “Horta”
  • Belarusian: “Орта”
  • Bengali: “হোর্তা”
  • Catalan: “Horta”
  • Cebuano: “Horta”
  • Chinese: “Horta”
  • Chinese: “奥尔塔”
  • Chinese: “奧爾塔”
  • Danish: “Horta”
  • Dutch: “Horta (Azoren)”
  • Dutch: “Horta”
  • Esperanto: “Horta”
  • Finnish: “Horta”
  • French: “Horta”
  • Georgian: “ორტა”
  • German: “Horta”
  • Greek: “Όρτα”
  • Gujarati: “હોર્ટા”
  • Hebrew: “הורטה”
  • Hindi: “होर्ता”
  • Hungarian: “Horta”
  • Indonesian: “Horta”
  • Irish: “Horta”
  • Italian: “Horta”
  • Japanese: “オルタ”
  • Japanese: “ホータ”
  • Japanese: “ホルタ湾”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊರ್ಟ”
  • Korean: “오르타”
  • Latvian: “Orta”
  • Lithuanian: “Horta”
  • Lombard: “Horta”
  • Malay: “Horta”
  • Marathi: “होऱटा”
  • Mazanderani: “اورتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Horta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Horta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Horta”
  • Persian: “اورتا”
  • Persian: “هورتا”
  • Polish: “Horta”
  • Portuguese: “Horta”
  • Portuguese: “Município da Horta”
  • Romanian: “Horta”
  • Russian: “Орта”
  • Sinhala: “හොර්ටා”
  • Slovenian: “Horta, Azori”
  • Slovenian: “Horta”
  • Spanish: “Horta”
  • Swedish: “Horta”
  • Tamil: “ஹோர்ட்டா”
  • Telugu: “హూర్ట”
  • Thai: “ออร์ตา”
  • Turkish: “Horta, Azorlar”
  • Turkish: “Horta”
  • Ukrainian: “Орта”
  • Urdu: “ہورتا”
  • Vietnamese: “Horta, Açores”
  • Vietnamese: “Horta”
  • Volapük: “Horta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Horta, Azores”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Horta”
  • Welsh: “Horta”
  • “Horta”

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