Furnas

Furnas is a village in the archipelago on the island of , and was home to 1,450 people in 2011. It is famous for its geothermal activity.
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  • Type: Village with 1,150 residents
  • Description: civil parish in Povoação
  • Also known as: “Furnas (Povoacao)” and “Furnas (Povoação)”
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Terra Nostra Park and Church of Nossa Senhora da Alegria.

Park
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY 2.0.
The is a botanical garden in Furnas…

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lake
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
is a lake.

Furnas

Latitude
37.7725° or 37° 46′ 21″ north
Longitude
-25.3133° or 25° 18′ 48″ west
Population
1,150
Elevation
241 metres (791 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PT FRS
Open location code
899PQMCP+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293151535
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3373025
Wiki­data ID
Q998510
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Furnas” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Furnas”
  • Cebuano: “Furnas”
  • Chechen: “Фурнаш”
  • 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”
  • Russian: “Фурнаш”
  • Slovak: “Furnas”
  • Slovenian: “Furnas”
  • Spanish: “Furnas”
  • Swedish: “Furnas”
  • Tatar: “Фурнаш”
  • Turkish: “Furnas”
  • Urdu: “فرناس”
  • “Furnas”

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