Candelária
Candelária is a civil parish located on the western coast of the island of Pico, in the municipality of Madalena in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 822, in an area of 29.70 km2.Photo: Unukorno, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 822 residents
- Description: civil parish in Madalena
- Also known as: “Candelaria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gruta das Torres and Church of Nossa Senhora das Candeias.
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 3½ km northwest of Candelária.
Church of Nossa Senhora das Candeias
Church
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Church of Nossa Senhora das Candeias is situated 4 km west of Candelária.
Candelária
- Category: freguesia of Portugal
- Location: Madalena Municipality, Azores, Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Candelária” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Candelária”
- Cebuano: “Candelária”
- Chechen: “Канделария (Мадалена)”
- Chechen: “Канделария”
- Chinese: “Candelária”
- Dutch: “Candelária”
- French: “Candelária”
- German: “Candelária”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Candelária”
- Portuguese: “Candelaria (Madalena)”
- Portuguese: “Candelária (Madalena)”
- Portuguese: “Candelaria”
- Portuguese: “Candelária”
- Russian: “Канделария”
- Spanish: “Candelaria”
- Spanish: “Candelária”
- Tatar: “Канделария (Мадалена)”
- Tatar: “Канделария”
- Turkish: “Candelaria (Madalena)”
- Turkish: “Candelária (Madalena)”
- Turkish: “Candelaria”
- Turkish: “Candelária”
- Urdu: “کینڈیلاریا (میڈالینا)”
- Urdu: “کینڈیلاریا”
- “Candelária”
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