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Angra, or Angra do Heroísmo (pron.
Pronunciation

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 ) is a city of some 21,300 people and municipality in Terceira Island
Terceira Island

Terceira Island is an island in the Azores, in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, with an area of 396.75 km?. The island's length is 29 km and the width is 18km; the perimeter is 90 km....
 in the Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 autonomous region of the Azores
Azores

The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
.

The municipality has a population of 35,581 and an area of 239.0 km². It is bordered by Praia da Vitória
Praia da Vitória

Praia da Vit?ria is a municipality in Portugal's Autonomous Region of the Azores . It is located on the eastern fringe of the island of Terceira....
 to the east.

The present Mayor is Andreia Martins Cardoso da Costa, elected by the Socialist Party.

It was classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 in 1983.

19 parishes of Angra do Heroísmo are:



About 70% of the parishes have 1,000 people and 88.71% of the population live in parishes with population over 1,000.






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Angra, or Angra do Heroísmo (pron.
Pronunciation

"Pronunciation" refers to the way a word or a language is usually spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If someone said to have "correct pronunciation," then it refers to both within a particular dialect....
 ) is a city of some 21,300 people and municipality in Terceira Island
Terceira Island

Terceira Island is an island in the Azores, in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, with an area of 396.75 km?. The island's length is 29 km and the width is 18km; the perimeter is 90 km....
 in the Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 autonomous region of the Azores
Azores

The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
.

The municipality has a population of 35,581 and an area of 239.0 km². It is bordered by Praia da Vitória
Praia da Vitória

Praia da Vit?ria is a municipality in Portugal's Autonomous Region of the Azores . It is located on the eastern fringe of the island of Terceira....
 to the east.

The present Mayor is Andreia Martins Cardoso da Costa, elected by the Socialist Party.

It was classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 in 1983.

Parishes

The 19 parishes of Angra do Heroísmo are:

  • Altares
    Altares

    Altares is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 884, its density is 33.9/km? and the area is 26.04 km?....
  • Cinco Ribeiras
    Cinco Ribeiras

    Cinco Ribeiras is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 684, its density is 60.1/km? and the area is 11.38 km?....
  • Doze Ribeiras
    Doze Ribeiras

    Doze Ribeiras is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 559, its density is 53.9/km? and the area is 10.37 km?....
  • Feteira
    Feteira (Angra do Heroísmo)

    Feteira is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 1044, its density is 339/km? and the area is 3.08 km?....
  • Nossa Senhora da Conceição
    Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Angra do Heroísmo)

    Nossa Senhora da Concei??o is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 40,509, its density is 10,825.5/km? and the area is 2.47 km?....
     (Angra do Heroísmo)
  • Porto Judeu
    Porto Judeu

    Porto Judeu, which means "Jewish Port" in portuguese language, is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 2,425, its density is 83.9/km? and the area is 28.9 km?....
  • Posto Santo
    Posto Santo

    Posto Santo is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 967, its density is 43.5/km? and the area is 22.21 km?....
  • Raminho
    Raminho

    Raminho is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 550, its density is 48.9/km? and the area is 11.25 km?....
  • Ribeirinha
    Ribeirinha (Angra do Heroísmo)

    Ribeirinha is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 was 2,733, its population density was 345.9/km? and the area is 7.9 km?. It is one of the densest parishes in Angra do Hero?smo....
  • Santa Bárbara
    Santa Bárbara (Angra do Heroísmo)

    Santa B?rbara is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 1,366, its density is 83.1/km? and the area is 16.43 km?....
  • Santa Luzia (Angra do Heroísmo)
    Santa Luzia (Angra do Heroísmo)

    Santa Luzia is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 3,001, its density is 2,500.8/km? and the area is 1.2 km?....
  • São Bartolomeu de Regatos
    São Bartolomeu de Regatos

    S?o Bartolomeu de Regatos is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 was 1,569, its density is 59.3/km? and the area is 26.44 km?....
  • São Bento
    São Bento (Angra do Heroísmo)

    S?o Bento is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 1,968, its density is 227.3/km? and the area is 8.66 km?....
  • São Mateus da Calheta
    São Mateus da Calheta

    S?o Mateus da Calheta is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 3,343, its density is 531.5/km? and the area is 6.29 km?....
  • São Pedro (Angra do Heroísmo)
    São Pedro (Angra do Heroísmo)

    S?o Pedro is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. Its population in 2001 was 3,638, its density was 944.9/km?, and its area was 3.85 km?....
  • Sé
    Sé (Angra do Heroísmo)

    S? is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 1,200, its density is 652.2/km? and the area is 1.84 km?. It is one of the most populated and the smallest parishes in Angra do Hero?smo....
     (Angra do Heroísmo)
  • Serreta
    Serreta

    Serreta is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 374, its density is 26/km? and the area is 14.37 km?....
  • Terra Chã
    Terra Chã

    Terra Ch? is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 2,783, its density is 265.6/km? and the area is 10.48 km?....
  • Vila de São Sebastião
    Vila de São Sebastião

    Vila de S?o Sebasti?o, also S?o Sebasti?o is a parish in the district of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 1,984, its density is 81.4/km? and the area is 24.36 km?....


About 70% of the parishes have 1,000 people and 88.71% of the population live in parishes with population over 1,000. About 11.3% of the population live in parishes with less than 1,000 people. The most populated parish is Nossa Senhora da Conceição and least populated is Serreta. The largest parish geographically is Porto Judeu and the smallest is Santa Luzia.

General info


Angra occupies the south coast of Terceira. It is the headquarters of a military command, and the residence of a Roman Catholic bishop. Its principal buildings are the cathedral, military college, arsenal and observatory. The harbour, now of little commercial or strategic importance, but formerly a celebrated naval station, is sheltered on the west and south-west by the promontory of Monte Brasil
Monte Brasil

Monte Brasil is a peninsula located on the south coast of Terceira Island in the central part of the Azores Islands. The isthmus and coast is located near the city of Angra do Hero?smo....
, but it is inferior to the neighbouring ports of Ponta Delgada
Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada is a city and municipality on S?o Miguel Island in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal. The city proper has a population of 46,102 and the municipality has a population of 64,516 for a total area of 233.0 km?....
 and Horta
Horta (Azores)

Horta is a municipality in the western part of the Azores.The municipality has a population of 15,224, its density is 88/km? and it has an area of 173.1 km?....
. The foreign trade is not large, and consists chiefly in the exportation of beef meat, dairy products and some fish. Angra was claimed to have been founded by Álvaro Martins
Álvaro Martins

?lvaro Martins, also known as ?lvaro Martins Homem, may have been a 15th century Portugal explorer of the western Atlantic and later the African coast....
, who sailed with Didrik Pining
Didrik Pining

Didrik Pining was a Germany or Norwegian-born privateer. He is most notable because of claims of his discovering North America in 1473, almost twenty years before Christopher Columbus....
 on his expedition to the New world and Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias

Bartolomeu Dias , a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portugal List of explorers who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so....
 on his voyage around the Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headlands and bays on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa. There is a very common misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing point between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Oceans, but in fact the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres t...
. Angra served as a refuge for Queen Maria II of Portugal
Maria II of Portugal

Maria II was Queen of Portugal from 1826 to 1853. She was the second Queen regnant of Portugal and the Algarve, and the 29th or 30th List of Portuguese monarchs....
 from 1830 to 1833. It also served as refuge for Almeida Garrett
Almeida Garrett

Jo?o Baptista da Silva Leit?o de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett, Pronunciation , was a Portugal Romanticism poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and Liberalism in Portugal politician and a freemason....
 during the Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon I of France First French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815....
.

Notable natural landmarks

  • Algar do Carvão
    Algar do Carvão

    The Algar Caves or Algar do Carv?o are caves in the municipality of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores, Portugal. They venture at least 100m downwards....
    .
  • Baía de Angra do Heroísmo
    Angra do Heroísmo Bay

    Angra do Hero?smo Bay or Ba?a de Angra do Hero?smo is the bay of Angra do Hero?smo in the Azores, Portugal....
    .
  • Baía das Pontas
    Baía das Pontas

    Ba?a das Pontas is a bay in the Ilh?us das Cabras of Feteira in Angra do Hero?smo, Azores, Portugal....
    .
  • Baía da Salga.
  • Baía do Refugo
    Baía do Refugo

    Ba?a do Refugo is a bay at Porto Judeu in Angra do Hero?smo, Terceira Island in Azores, Portugal....
    .
  • Baía dos Salgueiros (Angra do Heroísmo).
  • Furna de Água
    Furna de Água

    Furna de ?gua is a cave in Angra do Hero?smo, Terceira Island in Azores, Portugal. It was created about 2000 years ago from a lava tube of volcanic origin and it is 560 meters long....
    .
  • Galerias da Feteira
    Galerias da Feteira

    Galerias da Feteira is a geological feature in Feteira in Angra do Hero?smo, Terceira Island in Azores, Portugal....
    .
  • Gruta do Natal.
  • Gruta Brisa Azul.
  • Gruta das Mercês.
  • Gruta do Zé Grande.
  • Gruta das Cinco Ribeiras.
  • Gruta das Agulhas.
  • Gruta dos Ratões.
  • Ilhéus das Cabras.
  • Lagoa do Negro.
  • Monte Brasil
    Monte Brasil

    Monte Brasil is a peninsula located on the south coast of Terceira Island in the central part of the Azores Islands. The isthmus and coast is located near the city of Angra do Hero?smo....
    .
  • Parque de Campismo das Cinco Ribeiras
  • Porto das Cinco Ribeiras.
  • Ponta do Queimado
  • Prainha (Angra do Heroísmo).
  • Serra do Morião ou da Nasce Água.
  • Serra da Ribeirinha.
  • Serra de Santa Bárbara.
  • Zona Balnear do Negrito.
  • Zona de Protecção Especial do Ilhéu das Cabras.


Notable buildings

  • Centro Histórico de Angra do Heroísmo
    Centro Histórico de Angra do Heroísmo

    The Centro Hist?rico de Angra do Hero?smo is an historic centre located in the city of Angra do Hero?smo, the island of Terceira Island in the Azores Islands....
    .
  • Cais da Alfândega (Angra do Heroísmo).
  • Cais da Silveira.
  • Cemitério das Âncoras (Baía de Angra do Heroísmo).
  • Convento de São Gonçalo.


  • Fortaleza de São João Baptista.
  • Forte de São Sebastião.
  • Forte do Negrito.
  • Forte Grande de São Mateus da Calheta.
  • Forte do Terreiro.
  • Forte da Maré.
  • Forte da Má Ferramenta.
  • Forte de São João ou do Biscoitinho.
  • Forte das Cinco Ribeiras
  • Forte de Santa Catarina das Mós*Forte do Açougue
  • Forte de Santo António
  • Forte de São Benedito
  • Forte de São Francisco
  • Castelo dos Moinhos
  • Reduto dos Dois Paus
  • Reduto dos Três Paus
  • Forte de Santo António
  • Reducto da Salga
  • Forte da Salga
  • Forte da Igreja
  • Forte de São Fernando
  • Forte de São Sebastião
  • Forte das Caninas
  • Forte das Cavalas
  • Forte da Greta
  • Forte do Zimbreiro
  • Igreja Velha de São Mateus da Calheta.
  • Jardim Duque da Terceira.
  • Miradouro da Amoreira.
  • Miradouro do Pico das Cruzinhas.
  • Miradouro da Ponta do Queimado.
  • Miradouro do Pico Matias Simão.
  • Miradouro da Serreta.
  • Miradouro das Veredas.
  • Mata da Serreta.
  • Palácio Bettencourt.
  • Parque Municipal do Relvão (Angra do Heroísmo).
  • Parque Arqueológico Subaquático da Baía de Angra do Heroísmo.
  • Parque de Campismo das Cinco Ribeiras.
  • Porto das Cinco Ribeiras.
  • Solar da Madre de Deus.
  • Câmara Municipal de Angra do Heroísmo.


Trivia


Angra has a soccer team, named Angrense which is part of the Associação de Futebol de Angra do Heroísmo. Sport Clube Lusitânia is the main soccer team in the island. The region's soccer association is located in Angra do Heroísmo.

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