Angústias

Angústias () is one of the three freguesias ("civil parishes") that comprise the urban area of the city of Horta, on the island of Faial in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. This is an economically active, densely populated area. The population in 2011 was 2,418, in an area of 3.79 km2. Due to its commercial nature, the parish is one of the island's primary destinations for tourism, due to the concentration of historical sights and shopping. It contains the localities Caminho do Meio, Courelas, Pasteleiro, Port Pim, Termo da Igreja and Vigia.

== History == thumb|235px|left|Image of the Horta Bay, as seen through the eyes of the Earl of Cumberland (16th Century) thumb|235px|left|Fort of São Sebastião, at one time a military fortification that protected the ships in Porto Pim harbor The first recorded reference to settlers in the area of Angústias referred to the (in 1532). Since 1468, the island and parish had been under the administration of Josse van Huerter, a Flemish leader during the early colonization of the island of Faial. The settlement and growth of the village of Orta (later Horta) was concentrated in two nuclei: an interior settlement in the valley of Flamengos and the southwestern religious parish of Nossa Senhora das Angústias ().