Lomba
Lomba is a civil parish in the municipality of Lajes das Flores on the island of Flores in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2021 was 200 in an area of 9.87 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Flores and Lagoa da Lomba.
Flores
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Flores is an island in the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of Portugal, in the Atlantic Ocean. It is well known for its abundance of flowers, hence its Portuguese name of Flores.
Lagoa Funda das Lajes
Lagoon
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Lagoa Funda das Lajes is a lagoon, which is situated 3½ km west of Lomba.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Cruz das Flores Municipality and Fajã de Lopo Vaz.
Santa Cruz das Flores Municipality
Town
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Santa Cruz das Flores is a municipality situated in the north half of the island of Flores, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Situated in the sparsely populated Western Group, the population in 2021 was 2,020 inhabitants in an area that covers approximately 70.91 square kilometres, bordering the southern municipality of Lajes das Flores. Santa Cruz das Flores Municipality is situated 6 km northeast of Lomba.
Fajã de Lopo Vaz
Hamlet
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The Fajã de Lopo Vaz is a permanent debris field, built from the collapsing cliffs on the southern coast of the civil parish of Lajes, municipality of the same name, island of Flores, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Fajã de Lopo Vaz is situated 5 km southwest of Lomba.
Lomba
- Type: Locality with 206 residents
- Description: civil parish in Lajes das Flores
- Category: freguesia of Portugal
- Location: Lajes das Flores Municipality, Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Lomba” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Lomba”
- Cebuano: “Lomba (parokya sa Portugal, Azores, Lajes Das Flores)”
- Cebuano: “Lomba”
- Chechen: “Ломба (Лажеш-даш-Флореш)”
- Chechen: “Ломба”
- Chinese: “Lomba”
- Dutch: “Lomba (Lajes das Flores)”
- Dutch: “Lomba”
- French: “Lomba”
- German: “Lomba (Lajes das Flores)”
- German: “Lomba”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lomba”
- Polish: “Lomba”
- Portuguese: “Lomba (Lajes das Flores)”
- Portuguese: “Lomba”
- Russian: “Ломба”
- Spanish: “Lomba”
- Tatar: “Ломба (Лажеш-даш-Флореш)”
- Tatar: “Ломба”
- Turkish: “Lomba”
- “Lomba”
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