São Miguel
São Miguel is the largest and most populous island of the Azores archipelago. Portuguese for Saint Michael, the island is also known by locals as "The Green Island". Most visitors arriving in the Azores will pass through São Miguel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ponta Delgada and Furnas.
Ponta Delgada
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Ponta Delgada is the largest city in the Azores archipelago. It is on the island of São Miguel, and was home to 67,000 people in 2021. It is an important administrative, industrial and agricultural centre, and the home of the University of the Azores.
Furnas
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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.
Sete Cidades
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Sete Cidades is a village on the Azores. It is on the island of São Miguel, and is home to 800 people as of 2011. It has the famous twin crater lakes, Lagoa Azul and Lagoa Verde.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Água de Pau Massif and Lagoon of Fire.
Água de Pau Massif
Volcano
Água de Pau Massif is a stratovolcanic complex, located in the central part of the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. More recognizable for the Lagoa do Fogo at its centre, the volcanic complex includes centuries of geomorphological structures that include lava domes, cones and encrusted lava flows that have marked its history from, the last, 45,000 years BC.
Lagoon of Fire
Lake
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Lagoa do Fogo is a crater lake within the Água de Pau Massif stratovolcano in the center of the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Água de Pau.
Água de Pau
Town
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Água de Pau is a civil parish in the municipality of Lagoa in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 3,058, in an area of 17.46 km2. It contains the localities Água de Pau, Caloura, Cerco, Cinzeiro, Galera and Jubileu.
São Miguel
- Type: Island with 138,000 residents
- Description: island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores
- Also known as: “Ilha de Sao Miguel”, “San Miguel island”, “San Miguel Island”, “São Miguel Island”, “St. Michael’s”, “The Green island”, and “The Green Island”
- Location: Conceição, Ribeira Grande Municipality, Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“São Miguel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ساو ميغيل”
- Basque: “São Miguel uhartea”
- Basque: “Sao Miguel”
- Basque: “São Miguel”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сан-Мігел”
- Belarusian: “Сан-Мігел”
- Bengali: “সাঁউ মিগেল দ্বীপ”
- Breton: “Enez Sant Mikael”
- Breton: “Enez São Miguel”
- Breton: “Ilha de São Miguel”
- Catalan: “Illa de São Miguel”
- Cebuano: “Ilha de São Miguel (pulo sa Portugal)”
- Cebuano: “Ilha de São Miguel”
- Chinese: “圣米格尔岛”
- Chinese: “聖米格爾島”
- Croatian: “São Miguel”
- Czech: “Sao Miguel”
- Czech: “São Miguel”
- Danish: “Sao Miguel”
- Danish: “São Miguel”
- Dutch: “Sao Miguel (eiland)”
- Dutch: “São Miguel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة ساو ميجيل”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Sankta Mikaelo”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Sanmigelo”
- Esperanto: “Sanmigelo”
- Estonian: “Sao Miguel”
- Estonian: “São Miguel”
- Finnish: “Sao Miguel”
- Finnish: “São Miguel”
- French: “Ilha de São Miguel”
- French: “Sao Miguel”
- French: “São Miguel”
- Galician: “Illa de San Miguel”
- Galician: “Illa de São Miguel”
- German: “Ilha de São Miguel”
- German: “Sao Miguel”
- German: “São Miguel”
- Greek: “Σάο Μιγκέλ”
- Hebrew: “סאו מיגל”
- Hungarian: “São Miguel”
- Indonesian: “Pulau São Miguel”
- Irish: “Oileán São Miguel”
- Italian: “São Miguel”
- Japanese: “サンミゲル島”
- Korean: “상미겔섬”
- Latvian: “Sanmigela”
- Lithuanian: “San Migelis”
- Macedonian: “Саун Мигел”
- Malay: “Pulau São Miguel”
- Northern Frisian: “São Miguel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “São Miguel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sao Miguel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “São Miguel”
- Norwegian: “São Miguel”
- Persian: “جزیره سائو میگوئل”
- Polish: “Sao Miguel”
- Polish: “São Miguel”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de São Miguel”
- Portuguese: “Micaelense”
- Portuguese: “São Miguel”
- Romanian: “Insula São Miguel”
- Romanian: “São Miguel”
- Russian: “Сан-Мигел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “São Miguel (otok)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “São Miguel”
- Sicilian: “São Miguel (Azzorre)”
- Sicilian: “São Miguel”
- Slovak: “São Miguel”
- Slovenian: “São Miguel (otok)”
- Slovenian: “São Miguel”
- Spanish: “Isla de San Miguel”
- Spanish: “Isla de Sao Miguel”
- Spanish: “Isla de São Miguel”
- Spanish: “Isla San Miguel”
- Spanish: “Sao Miguel”
- Spanish: “São Miguel”
- Swahili: “São Miguel”
- Swedish: “Sao Miguel”
- Swedish: “São Miguel”
- Tamil: “சாவோ மிக்கல் தீவு”
- Thai: “เกาะเซามีแกล”
- Turkish: “São Miguel Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Сан Мігел”
- Ukrainian: “Сан Мігел”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Мігел”
- Vietnamese: “São Miguel (đảo)”
- Vietnamese: “São Miguel”
- Western Frisian: “São Miguel”
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