Lomba de São Pedro

Lomba de São Pedro is a parish in the district of Ribeira Grande in the Azores

Azores

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. The population in 2001 is 309, its density is 44.2/km² and the area is 6.99 km². Lomba de São Pedro is the leastly populated parish in population and density in Ribeira Grande. It is located E of Ribeira Grande and W of Nordeste and is linked by the road linking these two parishes. The main industry is agriculture. The Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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 is to the north. The mountains dominate the south. The district of Nordeste lies to the east.

Geography

Lomba de São Pedro has a small school and a small square (praça), and also a Presbyterian church, something unusual in such a small parish, in a country where Presbyterians number less than 1/2000 of the population.