Ginetes
Sign in to saveGinetes is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese of the Azores. It is situated in the westernmost part of the island, near the coast. The population in 2011 was 1,378, in an area of .
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Ginetes
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Ginetes visto do mar, Ponta Delgada, ilha de São Miguel, Açores.JPG
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- The western coast of Ginetes, showing the localities of Lomba de Cima and Lomba dos Gagos, along the eastern frontier with Candelária
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Azores
- Portuguese subdivision.island
- São Miguel
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Ponta Delgada
- Portuguese subdivision.image_map
- Locator map AZO SMG PDL Ginetes.svg
- Portuguese subdivision.map_caption
- Location of the civil parish of Ginetes in the municipality of Ponta Delgada
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 12.14
- Portuguese subdivision.elevation_m
- 139
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 1378
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 9555-064
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 292
- Portuguese subdivision.patron
- São Sebastião
- Portuguese subdivision.website
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- Portuguese subdivision.footnotes
- Geographic detail from CAOP (2010) produced by Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP) -->
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- freguesia of Portugal
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Ponta Delgada
- Population
- +1184
- Area
- +12.07
- Image
- Ginetes visto do mar, Ponta Delgada, ilha de São Miguel, Açores.JPG
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Ginetes is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese of the Azores. It is situated in the westernmost part of the island, near the coast. The population in 2011 was 1,378, in an area of .
==History== At the earliest part of the island's settlement, this region was known as the parish of São Sebastião, based on its patron saint. The region was given the new name owing to its proximity to the Pico dos Genetantes, which was transliterated into Ginetes. Father Gaspar Frutuoso, writing in his tome Saudades da Terra, reiterated that the settlement obtained its name because it was sheltered from ocean winds by the Pico dos Ginetes, called this [Ginetes] because it took the form of a saddle, as well as (as others had indicated) where Ginetes (a species of horse) was raised, in the mountains.