Altares
Sign in to saveAltares () is a freguesia ("civil parish") in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo on the Portuguese island of Terceira in the archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 901, in an area of 28.22 km2.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Altares
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Pico_Matias_Simão,_Altares,_Angra_do_Heroísmo,_Ilha_Terceira,_Arquipélago_dos_Açores,_Portugal.JPG
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Pico Matias Simão an ancient volcanic spatter cone located near the coast of Altares
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- AGH-altares.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-aghat1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Azores
- Portuguese subdivision.island
- Terceira
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Angra do Heroísmo
- Portuguese subdivision.image_map
- Locator map AZO TER Altares.svg
- Portuguese subdivision.map_caption
- Location of the civil parish in Terceira
- Portuguese subdivision.established_date
- Settlement: c. 1480
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 28.22
- Portuguese subdivision.elevation_m
- 132
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 901
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 9700-306
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 295 9XX XXX
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 849
- Area
- 31.20
- Elevation
- 392
- Official website
- www.jfaltares.pt
- Image
- Pico Matias Simão, Altares, Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira, Arquipélago dos Açores, Portugal.JPG
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- Altares (Angra do Heroísmo)
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Altares () is a freguesia ("civil parish") in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo on the Portuguese island of Terceira in the archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 901, in an area of 28.22 km2.
==History== Situated on relatively flat land with fertile soils, although situated far from major population centres, the region was settled early, sometime before the year 1480. Owing to the severity of the coast, access to this region was obtained from the port of Biscoitos, some east, and from the early settlement along the ravines of Quatro Ribeiras. The clearing and logging that proceeded along the territory, and from the agrarian structure and morphology of the land, settlement must have progressed from east to west, until the parish of Raminho (which was then known as Folhadais) was last to be settled.
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