Furnas
Furnas is a village in the Azores archipelago on the island of São Miguel, and was home to 1,450 people in 2011. It is famous for its geothermal activity.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Terra Nostra Park and Furnas Lagoon.
Terra Nostra Park
Garden
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY 2.0.
The Terra Nostra Park is a botanical garden in Furnas in the Povoação municipality on the Portuguese Azores island of São Miguel:…
Furnas
- Type: Village with 1,150 residents
- Description: civil parish in Povoação
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal, tourism, tourist attraction, and locality
- Location: Povoação Municipality, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.7725° or 37° 46′ 21″ northLongitude
-25.3133° or 25° 18′ 48″ westPopulation
1,150Elevation
241 metres (791 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT FRSOpen location code
899PQMCP+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 293151535OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3373025Wikidata ID
Q998510
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Furnas” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Furnas”
- Cebuano: “Furnas”
- Chechen: “Фурнаш”
- Chinese: “Furnas”
- Chinese: “富尔纳斯”
- Czech: “Furnas”
- Dutch: “Furnas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فورناس”
- French: “Furnas”
- Galician: “Furnas”
- German: “Furnas”
- Italian: “Furnas”
- Japanese: “フルナス”
- Korean: “푸르나스 화산”
- Malay: “Furnas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Furnas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Furnas”
- Polish: “Furnas”
- Portuguese: “Furnas (Povoacao)”
- Portuguese: “Furnas (Povoação)”
- Portuguese: “Furnas”
- Russian: “Фурнаш”
- Slovak: “Furnas”
- Slovenian: “Furnas”
- Spanish: “Furnas”
- Swedish: “Furnas”
- Tatar: “Фурнаш”
- Turkish: “Furnas”
- “Furnas”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Furnas”. Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.