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unusual facts about São Miguel


Mariano S. Bishop

Bishop (his last name being an anglicized version of Bispo) was born November 14, 1906 on the island of São Miguel in the Azores and grew up in the south end of Fall River, Massachusetts, where his family brought him as a young child.


Geothermal power in Portugal

While electricity is only produced on São Miguel, Azores, direct-use applications are also at Chaves in northern Portugal, at S. Pedro do Sul in central Portugal and at the Lisbon Air Force Hospital.

In the Azores, five geothermal power plants exist on São Miguel, one near Pico Vermelho (in operation since 1981) and four binary cycle power plants in Ribeira Grande, which have together an installed capacity of 16 MWe.

Lagoa das Sete Cidades

It consists of two ecologically-different small-lakes connected by a narrow passage (and crossed by a bridge), located inside a dormant volcano on the western third of the island of São Miguel.

Nuno Sociedade

In the 2010 summer, after only four second level games in the campaign, 31-year-old Sociedade left his main club and signed for Santiago Futebol Clube, an amateur side in the island of São Miguel, in his birth region.

Pico da Vara

Pico da Vara is the highest mountain on the Portuguese island of São Miguel, in the Azores archipelago of Macaronesia in the Atlantic Ocean.

RTP Açores

Following the Carnation Revolution, the move towards a decentralized constitution, with an autonomous status for regional authorities, the island of São Miguel in the archipelago of the Azores, was chosen for the broadcasting centre.


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Action of 14 October 1918

On the island of Madeira, the Portuguese patrol boat NRP Augusto de Castilho under the command of the First Lieutenant Carvalho de Araújo received the mission of escorting the Portuguese civilian steamer São Miguel, which was property of the Empresa Insulana de Navegação and was sailing from the port of Funchal in Madeira to the port of Ponta Delgada on the Azores archipelago, with 206 passengers and several tons of cargo on board.

Purubora language

Specifically it is spoken in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in Costa Marques and around the headwaters of the Rio São Miguel tributary of the right bank of the Guaporé.

São João de Areias

Seven chapels were constructed during this epoch, and dedicated to São Sebastião, São Pedro, São Silvestre, São João Evangelista, Santo António and São Miguel, in addition to a chapel to Nossa Senhora da Graça, and later the chapels dedicated to São José and São Francisco (no Casal).