Capelas
Sign in to saveCapelas (; Portuguese for chapels) is a civil parish along the northern coast of the municipality of Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese Azores. The population in 2011 was 4,080, in an area of .
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Capelas
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Capelas, vista do Miradouro da Vigia da Baleia, Ponta Delgada, Açores.JPG
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Capelas, as seen from the Vigia das Baleias Belvedere, along the northern coast of São Miguel Island
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Azores
- Portuguese subdivision.island
- São Miguel
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Ponta Delgada
- Portuguese subdivision.image_map
- Locator map AZO SMG PDL Capelas.svg
- Portuguese subdivision.map_caption
- Location of the civil parish of Capelas in the municipality of Ponta Delgada
- Portuguese subdivision.established_date
- Settlement: 12 February 1592Parish: 3 July 1839
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 16.85
- Portuguese subdivision.elevation_m
- 130
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 4080
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 9545-XXX
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 296
- Portuguese subdivision.patron
- Nossa Senhora da Apresentação
- Portuguese subdivision.website
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- Instance of
- freguesia of Portugal
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Ponta Delgada
- Population
- +3981
- Area
- +16.84
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Capelas, vista do Miradouro da Vigia da Baleia, Ponta Delgada, Açores.JPG
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Capelas (; Portuguese for chapels) is a civil parish along the northern coast of the municipality of Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese Azores. The population in 2011 was 4,080, in an area of .
==History== thumb|235px|left|Parochial church of Nossa Senhora da Apresentação in the main square, opposite the Polivalente (English: community center) The first settlements congregated around the port of Poços, along the northern edge that divides Capelas from São Vicente Ferreira; its first settlers establishing shelters in and around the 16th Century. With elevation of Capelas to (religious) parish it became integrated within the municipality of Ponta Delgada (on 11 July 1592). This administrative dependency lasted until it was elevated to status of vila, as stipulated by the Carta de Lei (Charter Law) conferred by Queen D. Maria, on July 10, 1839.