Azores 50. Caldeira Velha Natural Monument

Azores

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March 3rd 2016
Thursday 3rd March, 2016. Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores The Azores are located in the North Atlantic Ocean approximately 1815 km from the Portuguese mainland, 1200 km from Madeira and 2625 km from Newfoundland in Canada. The archipelago comprises 9 islands and several islets and is part of the biogeographic region of Macronesia, along with the archipelagos of Madeira, Canary Islands an ... read more

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more