Corvo
Corvo is an island in the Azores. Corvo and Flores are the two westernmost islands in the archipelago, and represent the only Portuguese territory geographically located in North America, being west of the tectonic plate divide.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: island with 430 residents
- Description: island of the Azores
- Also known as: “Corvo Island” and “Vila do Corvo Municipality”
Photo: Dreizung, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Corvo Airport and Lagoa do Caldeirão.
Corvo Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Dreizung, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Corvo Airport is an airport in the village of Vila do Corvo on the island of Corvo, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It is owned by the Regional Government of the Azores, but managed by SATA Air Açores.
Church of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres
Church
Photo: Luissilveira, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres is a Portuguese 16th-century church located in the municipality of Vila do Corvo, on the island of Corvo in the archipelago of the Azores.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vila do Corvo.
Vila do Corvo
Town
Photo: Dreizung, Public domain.
Vila do Corvo is the smallest municipality in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, constituting the island of Corvo in its entirety. With a population of 430 in 2011, it is the least populated of the Portuguese municipalities, and the only Portuguese municipality, by law, without a civil parish.
Corvo
- Location: Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Corvo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Corvo” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Corvo uhartea”
- Basque: “Corvo”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Корву”
- Belarusian: “Корву”
- Catalan: “Corvo”
- Catalan: “Illa de Corvo”
- Cebuano: “Ilha do Corvo”
- Chinese: “科爾武島”
- Czech: “Corvo”
- Danish: “Corvo”
- Dutch: “Corvo”
- Estonian: “Corvo”
- French: “Corvo Island”
- French: “Corvo”
- Galician: “Illa do Corvo”
- German: “Corvo”
- Greek: “Κόρβο”
- Hebrew: “קורבו”
- Icelandic: “Corvo”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Corvo”
- Italian: “Corvo”
- Italian: “Isola Corvo”
- Japanese: “コルヴォ島”
- Japanese: “コルボ島”
- Kazakh: “Корву”
- Korean: “코르부섬”
- Latvian: “Korvu”
- Lithuanian: “Korvas”
- Lithuanian: “Korvus”
- Lombard: “Corvo (isola)”
- Lombard: “Corvo”
- Macedonian: “Корву (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Корву”
- Mirandese: “Corvo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Corvo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Corvo”
- Norwegian: “Corvo”
- Persian: “جزیره کوروو”
- Polish: “Corvo”
- Portuguese: “Corvo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do corvo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Corvo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Marco”
- Portuguese: “Vila do corvo”
- Portuguese: “Vila do Corvo”
- Russian: “Корву”
- Russian: “Остров Корву”
- Slovak: “Corvo”
- Spanish: “Corvo”
- Spanish: “Isla de Corvo”
- Spanish: “Vila do Corvo”
- Swahili: “Corvo”
- Swedish: “Corvo”
- Turkish: “Corvo Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Корву”
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