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Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
for northeast, hence that part of the island) is a municipality on the northeastern part of
São Miguel IslandSão Miguel Island , nicknamed "The Green Island", is the largest and most populous of the Azores Islands archipelago. The island covers and has around 140,000 inhabitants, nicknamed Micaelenses...
in the
AzoresThe Azores is a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about from Lisbon and about from the east coast of North America. The two westernmost Azorean islands actually lie on the North American plate...
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Nordeste ' onMouseout='HidePop("99044")' href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Portuguese_language">Portuguese
Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
for northeast, hence that part of the island) is a municipality on the northeastern part of
São Miguel IslandSão Miguel Island , nicknamed "The Green Island", is the largest and most populous of the Azores Islands archipelago. The island covers and has around 140,000 inhabitants, nicknamed Micaelenses...
in the
AzoresThe Azores is a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about from Lisbon and about from the east coast of North America. The two westernmost Azorean islands actually lie on the North American plate...
. It has a population of 5,254.
Nordeste is located east of Ponta Delgada and Vila Franca do Campo, E of Ribeira Grande and NE of Furnas and is linked with a road connecting Ponta Delgada and Lagoa and west to
Ribeira GrandeThere is also Ribeira Grande in Cape Verde, see Ribeira Grande, Cape VerdeRibeira Grande is a municipality on the central part of São Miguel Island in the Azores with a population of 29,318 inhabitants...
. The parish is the leastly populated in the island. Most of the mountains are covered with forests and valleys which features creeks and streams and are grassy in both lower and higher elevations. The rest of the land are made up of agricultural lands and some forests. The mountaintop is to the southwest and the coastline is to the northwest, the northeast and the southeast. The main source of industry are agriculture and fishing while some businesses are in the downtown area. The mountains lie to the south and west.
The highest elevations of Nordeste are: Pico Redondo (980 m), Pico Verde (927 m), Pico Bartolomeu (887 m) and
Pico da VaraPico da Vara is the highest mountain on the Portuguese island of São Miguel, in the Azores archipelago of Macaronesia in the Atlantic Ocean. It lies in the east of the island in the Serra da Tronqueira range in the municipality of Nordeste...
(1103 m), the last being the highest point of São Miguel Island.
The parish is the third-largest. The easternmost settlement is Lomba do Moio.
Nordeste has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, banks, a post office, a small port and a square or a plaza (
praça).
Parishes
The 9 parishes of Norderste include:
1,000. The smallest parish is Salga. The highest parish is São Pedro de Nordestinho in location. The westernmost parish is Salga, the easternmost is Nordeste.
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