Faial
Faial is an island in the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of Portugal. Horta, the legislative capital of the Azores, is the sole municipality on the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: Portuguese island of the Central Group of the Azores
- Also known as: “Faial Island”, “Fayal”, and “Fayal Island”
Photo: Marlene Angeja, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cabeço Gordo.
Cabeço Gordo
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cabeço Gordo is the highest point in the island of Faial, measuring 1,043 metres above sea level. Located on the southern rim of the Caldeira Volcano, on a clear day, most of the islands of the central group of the Azores are visible: Pico, São Jorge, and Graciosa, although normally the caldera may be covered in clouds and fog.
Faial
- Category: landform
- Location: Flamengos, Horta Municipality, Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Faial from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Faial” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Faial uhartea”
- Basque: “Faial”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Фаял”
- Belarusian: “Фаял”
- Catalan: “Faial”
- Catalan: “illa de Faial”
- Catalan: “Illa de Faial”
- Cebuano: “Ilha do Faial”
- Chinese: “法亚尔岛”
- Chinese: “法亞爾島”
- Czech: “Faial”
- Dutch: “Faial”
- Estonian: “Faial”
- Finnish: “Faial”
- French: “Faial”
- Galician: “Illa do Faial”
- German: “Faial”
- German: “Ilha do Faial”
- Greek: “Νήσος Φαϊάλ”
- Greek: “Φαϊάλ”
- Hebrew: “פאיאל”
- Hungarian: “Faial”
- Icelandic: “Faial”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Faial”
- Italian: “Faial”
- Japanese: “ファイアル島”
- Korean: “파이알섬”
- Latvian: “Fajala”
- Lithuanian: “Fajalas”
- Macedonian: “Фајал (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Фајал”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Faial”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faial”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fayal”
- Norwegian: “Faial”
- Persian: “جزیره فیالی”
- Polish: “Faial”
- Portuguese: “Faial”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Faial”
- Romanian: “Insula Faial”
- Russian: “Файял”
- Russian: “Фаял”
- Slovenian: “Faial (otok)”
- Slovenian: “Faial”
- Spanish: “Isla de Faial”
- Spanish: “Isla de Fayal”
- Spanish: “Isla Faial”
- Swahili: “Faial”
- Swedish: “Faial”
- Thai: “Faial Island”
- Thai: “Fayal”
- Thai: “เกาะฟายาล”
- Turkish: “Faial Adası”
- Turkish: “Faial”
- Ukrainian: “Фаял”
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