Ribeira Seca
Ribeira Seca is a freguesia in the municipality of Calheta in the Portuguese Azores. The population in 2011 was 1,025, in an area of 53.77 km2. It contains the localities Aveiro, Caldeira de Cima, Caminhos Novos, Canada de Baixo, Faja da Entre Ribeiras, Fajã…Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fajã dos Vimes and Lagoa da Fajã dos Cubres.
Fajã dos Vimes
Hamlet
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The Fajã dos Vimes is a permanent debris field, known as a fajã, built from the collapsing cliffs on the south coast of the civil parish of Ribeira Seca, in the municipality of Calheta, island of São Jorge, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
Lagoa da Fajã dos Cubres
Hamlet
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Lagoa da Fajã dos Cubres is a lagoon located in the parish of Ribeira Seca, on the north coast of the Portuguese island of São Jorge. The lagoon was listed along with Lagoa da Caldeira as a "Wetland of International Importance" under the Ramsar Convention in 2005. Lagoa da Fajã dos Cubres is situated 6 km northwest of Ribeira Seca.
Ribeira Seca
- Type: Locality with 1,030 residents
- Description: civil parish in Calheta (Açores)
- Category: freguesia of Portugal
- Location: Calheta Municipality, Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Ribeira Seca” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ribeira Seca”
- Cebuano: “Ribeira Seca”
- Chechen: “Рибейра-Сека (Кальета)”
- Chechen: “Рибейра-Сека”
- Chinese: “Ribeira Seca”
- Dutch: “Ribeira Seca”
- French: “Ribeira Seca”
- German: “Ribeira Seca”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ribeira Seca”
- Portuguese: “Ribeira Seca (Calheta)”
- Portuguese: “Ribeira Seca”
- Russian: “Рибейра-Сека”
- Spanish: “Ribeira Seca”
- Tatar: “Рибейра-Сека (Кальета)”
- Tatar: “Рибейра-Сека”
- Turkish: “Ribeira Seca”
- “Ribeira Seca”
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